Hello, I'm trying to set the default font in Apple Mail to Helvetica Light 13pt. This seems to happen successfully in the Preferences -> Fonts and Colours tab, but then when I actually compose a message or reply to a message, the default font will always be Helvetica 13pt. It's as if the weight specification went completely lost. I tried setting this many times over now, so it's not a procedural mistake on my part, I think. Any ideas?
alessandro.noiato wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to set the default font in Apple Mail to Helvetica Light 13pt. This seems to happen successfully in the Preferences -> Fonts and Colours tab, but then when I actually compose a message or reply to a message, the default font will always be Helvetica 13pt. It's as if the weight specification went completely lost. I tried setting this many times over now, so it's not a procedural mistake on my part, I think. Any ideas?
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alessandro.noiato wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to set the default font in Apple Mail to Helvetica Light 13pt. This seems to happen successfully in the Preferences -> Fonts and Colours tab, but then when I actually compose a message or reply to a message, the default font will always be Helvetica 13pt. It's as if the weight specification went completely lost. I tried setting this many times over now, so it's not a procedural mistake on my part, I think. Any ideas?
Change Fonts & Colors preferences in Mail on Mac - Apple ...
If you still have an issue, you can file a bug report using the same link: http://www.apple.com/feedback
alessandro.noiato wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to set the default font in Apple Mail to Helvetica Light 13pt. This seems to happen successfully in the Preferences -> Fonts and Colours tab, but then when I actually compose a message or reply to a message, the default font will always be Helvetica 13pt.
If you are talking about the font which will be seen by your recipients, Apple Mail does not have the ability to set this by default. You have to set it for each outgoing individually in the New Message pane. Mail's Fonts and Colors preferences only affect what is seen locally.
Mail has always behaved this way. Users who need to set a default font to be seen by recipients often switch to Outlook, which has that capability.
I don't need the recipient to see the font I specify. what I was trying to set was the font that I see as I compose a message, and of course as it should appear in my sent messages box. Do you confirm that you also cannot set that? What doesn't add up is that I can indeed set it to Helvetica 13, or any other font. It's just the weight that seems to be forgotten.
alessandro.noiato wrote:
What doesn't add up is that I can indeed set it to Helvetica 13, or any other font. It's just the weight that seems to be forgotten.
I am currently on Catalina, and Mail even there does not honor light, bold, or oblique varieties of Helvetica for composing. I have a feeling Mail may have never done that. Were you able to do it in the past?
This is the exact procedure I followed, there is no other. I filed a bug report, but strange that nobody noticed this until now.
No, this is the first time I try, but it doesn't feel like intended behaviour. The weight is honoured when displaying other messages, it's only upon composing my own that it gets forgotten.
I did, but we all know that's essentially equivalent to doing nothing :)
How do "we" know that?
Set font weight in Apple Mail
