how can i change font in iphone email editor?

I've done the same. Great little fix for email signatures. However, the font for my signature is Century Gothic (I copied and pasted it in like that) when I compose the email but when my email arrives it seems to be in Times New Roman. Can I stop this from happening?

You can't.

It seems that if you copy text into the editor that came from a source with a different font then that font will stick for the rest of the email document. I discovered this by copying in something from notes and then had a new font for the rest of the email.

I have not tried it but perhaps you could have a document with a bit of text in several fonts. Copy the appropriate fonted text and the paste into the email.

This solution does not seem very Apple to me.

You can go to Settings --> Mail, Contacts, Calendar. Under Mail, you can change "Minimum Font Size".

I'm not seeing the minimum font size option with iOS 6, did they get rid of it?

Go to Settings>General>Accessibility>Large Text

This is my single biggest beef with iOS.

The following just increases your default size in iPhone; doesn't fix this issue.

Go to Settings>General>Accessibility>Large Text

Even after doing this, if I copy over a URL from let's say safari into Mail, it gets posted in smaller size. So my email text now has different sizes. The only work around I have found is drafting the email in a different editor and then pasting back into mail. And this wastes a lot of time.

Now interestingly, on iPad with same iOS version, I can copy urls from safari into Mail and they come across in the same font size as my mail message.

iOS 6.1 on both iPad and iPhone.

The only way I have been able to customize the font by anything other than the size is by using the signature line. If you have an email signature that is customized with a specific color, select the font in a received email on your device and copy it. Go into setting and edit your signature. Paste the copied text. the font will default to black and white. shake the phone and "undo change attributes" and is will revert to the colored fonts. You can also paste a dash at the very top of your signature and when you compose an email just backspace the dash and begin typing. This will allow you to have a different color when you are typing your entire message.

I'm surprised that a fairly mature OS like iOS6 doesn't have something as basic as some font options in the default email editor. Reminds me of the days when copy/paste wasn't yet available as an option.

If you copy and pasted from your notes to your email and wanted the email in standard font, just paste the message in a text first and then copy that and paste it in your e-mail.

Rabra, thats a good idea. Also along the same lines, if you simply wanted to change back to the original font after pasting something from another document, you can select some random text from elsewhere in the email that you are editing, paste that after the text that caused the font change, and you're back to normal again. This can be done without having to keep a document with various fonts in it.

I wanna also say, I think this issue stems from Apple's minimalist philosophy. Less is more, and simple is beautiful. So there is no pulldown context menu to clutter up your screen (and therefore nowhere to stick a font-change menu selection). It's a philosophical issue taken to extremes, and you cant win a philosophical argument against Steve Jobs, even after he is gone! I'm not dissing the guy. I think he was absolutely brilliant with all the amazing ideas he brought to market. But like all eccentric brilliant people, he had some quirks that sometimes get to you.

Use Pages to format the content and copy & paste to get it into the email.

Awkward, but if nothing else works...

Has anyone figured out how to do this on an iPad?

I did try the copy and paste but it does not work from Pages.

I ended up with sending the formated Pages document by email as a PDF.

That will work for the body of the message.

But what if you want to change the font in your signature on your iPad?