How do I change Font kerning in Mail?

We might need some kind of email template app, maybe? For now, about a million like this should help (grrr): Feedback...

Many apps can kern text and paste that kerned text into Mail to deliver sophisticated, highly creative email. macOS Mail cannnot natively kern teat. Pasted in kerns are veiwable by Apple and PC devices (PC with font substitutions). Only Apple deices can create mail chains and replies with unaltered kerns. Pasting kerns from Mail into any other app completely removes kerns and font and background styling, with kerns, fonts and colors lost. MAIL IS NOT COMMUNICATING kerns, only accepting good typography. Engaging multiple apps to share with other Apple devices, in a closed inner circle. Big Wide World? Text standards?

Apple, please let Mail style and share kerning! Current kerning is half-dysfunctional, a background HTML kern-HACK.

Getting back on topic, TextEdit kern is about all that that app has to add to Mail, as otherwise their text capabilities are about equal. Adding kern to Mail would make them identical twins. Apple holding the kern back 100% relates to the email servers available today. Terminal scripting Mail templates to try and bypass what's out there disintegrated in my mental trash can already. I like simple. What works is saving pasted kern as a Mail Style. But setting that up is time consuming. Mail is not like say Sublime Text, where a simple copy and paste of Library settings shares your creative genius with any Apple computer. Oh no, setting up those Styles takes time. Though as a general rule, if Mail 'styles', its twin app it shares well enough. If I could only find a way to shortcut with copied Libraries. Any ideas there?

Viking wrote: "Otherwise, not a user interface, or preferences configuration in Apple Mail."

We seem to be lost in pure technical jargon. We should consider kern as a social facility as well. There's a good reason for that, maybe you would agree here. In addition to the email server conundrum. That reason for avoiding Mail kerning would be typography. Clark and Carter et al who do system fonts for Apple are encyclopedias of human understanding. They design their fonts for a thing called social context, which means years of adjusting each letter to suit a wide range of human uses, word forms, languages, cultures.

You can tell me, "Osiyo, you are fishing!" Not. Take this example above.

It took me half an hour of spacing each letter pair. And still look at the Z foot, how it crams into the E base-bar. Ugh! When you evenly kern a font in Text Edit, You apply an exactly equal space between each font's human metric. Squeeze them together and you immediately appreciate that the way that our languages put letters together cannot be amenable to every word form. Squeezing text is creating a work of art.

Perhaps for now, Apple reasons that given typography's human metric, it would prefer that we do the balancing using a TextEdit scratch pad, and keep that complicated stuff away from our universal communication tools. Unless we work out a kerned style carefully, on our own, first. Then, and only then, we can use that wonderful Styles tool to store it away for considered use.

FYI Just to update an existing font that has gradually formed across centuries usually,

takes a typographer many years. Metrics are many and fiendishly complicated.

But all us kids may then happily pound Apple with complaints?

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Viking

(nice viking, with 10 stone mallet and brooding lightening bolts, no shouting, please be gentle, encourage),

Templates are where it happens, for some. I have tried templates in Mail and found countless bugs and massive clunk. Something like Wordpress 1990's. I think what slows our boats is so many systems and devices and countless server dependencies that together over-filter and misconstrue the software intentions of developers like Apple. Knocks the wind out of my sail, just thinking of it.

Being a web developer who loves raw HTML/CSS, I am still waiting for the day when we can code email like a web page. Server technology has a lot of adjustment to do, if that will ever happen. I mean, seriously do you know how to simple post a message using default post settings and toolbar click for kern, word-spacing, paragraph spacing, animated background flex, music with audio controls, You-tube sidebar widgets, etc. The culture of mail is starved. Kerning is introducing a vast topic. Kern would be just one POWERFUL button here:

Please excuse my wonky! There is also the option to communicate with email using Pages... also Numbers and Keynote. I would strongly prefer using apps as provided, avoiding third parties. Digital writing is hard!

VikingOSX wrote:

There would be no assurance that the recipient's Mail client would correctly interpret the CSS styling that you applied above.

One can get their hopes up by creating a looser kerned text sample in TextEdit, and making a new Favorite Paragraph style of it. ... But it doesn't work in Mail.

TextEdit kerning is tested using macOS High Sierra recipient and Windows10 recipient, both get message with styling as sent. PC looks a little different, due to font substitutions. PC retaining colors and kerning. Mac-to-Mac email retains all styling, kerning, fonts, everything. PC reply/forward is wipe-out, removes Mail background HTML styling, styled parts plain text. Worse than paste from Mail into say TextEdit, where pasted text is whatever is TextEdit default text, wth all background HTML styling removed (no kern, no colors, no font). Interestingly, Mac (unlike PC) can send on email (indefinitely?) with kerning and text styling untouched. As in global Mail campaign, shared homework, etc. Kiddy email chains only, (((lol))).

Using Terminal to style email is not going to happen anywhere sensibly human and creative. Apple, please let Mail style and share kerning! Loose your current half-dysfunctional background HTML kern-HACK.