Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knew what font that iOS mail uses when composing emails?
I am trying to get my emails consistent across all devices (Macbook using Apple Mail, iPhone using Mail, and Windows PC using Outlook). As the iPhone's app is the only one that doesn't let you change the font, I was hoping I could find out which one it is so I can change the other two clients to match it instead.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I believe it is San Francisco. The standard iOS system font.
https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
I doubt you'll find it for your Windows PC.
I don't think so, I am pretty sure the system font is independent of mail, based on the fact that San Francisco is not a selectable font in macOS's Mail app.
You didn't ask about macOS.
The only options I can see for the iOS Mail apps's font is in accessibility and that is just BOLD or size. i.e.: iOS's Dynamic Type.
Are you trying to control what your recipient sees?
Yes I am trying to control what my recipient sees, in the sense that I want them to be seeing emails in the same font regardless of which client I use to send (such that I can email from anywhere I happen to be, without worrying about inconsistencies).
So I am trying to find what font iOS Mail composes in, so I can match it in my other Mail clients.
You have little to no control over your recipient's mail client, which is where your messages are rendered for their viewing.
The challenge is at their end, not yours.
You should research "iOS html mail" as a solution.
This will allow you to (somewhat) control what your recipient sees when they view your messages.
Or, save your content to PDF and attach that to your outbound messages. This assures you of full control over look and feel and fonts and layout and so on.
Do you mean to say that iOS mail sends in plain text?
In that case, I can just set all my clients to do the same, and it will always be consistent?
Yes.
Even plain text can be rendered "differently" at the other end. It depends on the mail client being used at the other end.
IMO, controlling the look and feel of outbound email can be a losing game.
This why there is a huge market for outbound mail services that use HTML (in another app/client, not native iOS Mail) to render their messages and even then, include a link that says... "can't see this message... click here..." to be taken to a website that has their message including their HTML formatting in place.
Anyone know what font iOS mail composes emails in?
