Unwanted change for inbound email font.

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Unwanted change for inbound email font.

I'm using Ventura, Mac Mini. I changed the font I'm using for composing and sending emails from Trebuchet to Comic Sans.

But without making any other changes, a number of the emails I'm receiving are also now showing up in Comic Sans (since these come from personal and business sources they can't suddenly all be using Comic Sans).

Any suggestion on how I can have inbound emails appear in the font in which they were composed/sent?

Thank you very much.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 22, 2023 10:36 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 22, 2023 11:15 AM in response to MichaelJonas

MichaelJonas wrote:

Any suggestion on how I can have inbound emails appear in the font in which they were composed/sent?

No. For that to happen, the sender has to use "rich text" (html) email, where the font they used is specified by codes inside the message. If the sender uses "plain text" instead, it is the font you chose locally which is used for the text, since the incoming has no indication of what font the sender used.

Note that Apple Mail itself sends email in plain text by default, regardless of your preference settings, so your recipients will normally see it in a font they have chosen locally.

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MichaelJonas Author

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Mar 22, 2023 12:00 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Wow!! Thank you very much for the explanation. I guess for all the years I've used Trebuchet I never really noticed the reply font unless it was very unusual.

By changing my font, I must have made myself more aware of the look of the reply.

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MichaelJonas Author

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Apr 7, 2023 7:01 PM in response to MichaelJonas

If I may, I have another "font" question.

I'm using Comic Sans and I've come across several articles criticizing that font and suggesting alternative, similar fonts.

What do recipients see if a Word or other document is written in a font that's not part of the Microsoft font zoo?

Thanx for being patient with me. Michael

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Unwanted change for inbound email font.

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