How can I reset default font and size on MacBook Air Mail app?

I have been unsuccessfully trying to resolve a font challenge in mail for several years working with Apple representatives.


CHALLENGE: I desire to set the default font from Times 12 point to Century 18 point for all emails.

ACTION: SETTINGS: I choose Century 18pt for the (3) categories provided for texts

RESULTS: I create a new email and it STILL reverts to default text Times 12 point.


A lot of creatives use Apple products. Times is an archaic old school font. I want a brighter more vibrant font that is set as my default font vs having to manually change font and point EVERY time I compose an email.


Certainly, if one can create an ongoing embedded signature line within emails, then, one ought to be able to reset the font type and size. It looks like one has accomplished this with the setting changes in SETTINGS but it doesn't implement the change and retains the default font.


Now this will be a fabulous fix for the next OS released - to be able to manually reset the default text and point size.


It is super annoying to have to change it manually within each email.


Are you guys up for the challenge? It may not seem important BUT if you want your emails to jump out it is all about

  1. How it reads

A. The message content AND

B. The message aesthetics or appearance


Hoping you guys will run with this and figure out a solution.


Cheers!


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Original Title: RESETTING DEFAULT FONT IN MAIL TO DESIRED FONT and SIZE

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jun 27, 2025 4:41 PM

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Jun 27, 2025 5:10 PM in response to anne-marie180

anne-marie180 wrote:

I am asking Apple to look into over riding the default settings for text in Mail so one may choose what font and point size they want to use as a given standard.

Apple is not here in this user-to-user community. You can provide product feedback to Apple here: Product Feedback - Apple

Or, see if something here helps:

Change settings in Mail on Mac - Apple Support (MO)

Format text in emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support (MO)




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Jun 28, 2025 10:57 AM in response to anne-marie180

anne-marie180 wrote:

Yes. With any font. The new parameters are not set as default. It defaults back to Times 12 point. If you try it yourself you will come to the same conclusion.

It seems to work ok for me. I set the message font in Mail's settings to Marker Felt and that's what gets typed when I open the new message pane.


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Jun 27, 2025 5:02 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

I am not referring to the recipient - how their email is displayed. I understand this aspect of not being to 'control' the settings of recipient's email.


I am referring to the inability to set MY default text and point size to Century 18 point from Times 12 point. When I draft an email it is in the Apple default text of Times/12 point. I want to be able to draft an email and have Century 18 point set as the default SO that I do not have to manually change the font and point size in each and every email.


So this is an Apple constraint for the sender - me.


I have tried to change the font in Settings. I have worked with a few Apple Reps and no one has figured it out and ALL agree that despite changing the default settings to preferred text and point size it is not saving it and activating it. Instead, it reverts to the default.


I am asking Apple to look into over riding the default settings for text in Mail so one may choose what font and point size they want to use as a given standard.

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Jun 27, 2025 10:41 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

Thanks. Funny, Apple representative hopped on my Mac to help problem solve today. No resolution Then he guided me to this forum and said to post my comment here. I asked twice if Apple Tech would actually read it. He said yes, definitely. Hmmmm. I was suspect it was just a customer forum. You are inferring this, too. I will try your links - thank you.

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Jun 28, 2025 1:22 PM in response to anne-marie180

anne-marie180 wrote:

It may not seem important BUT if you want your emails to jump out it is all about
How it reads
A. The message content AND B. The message aesthetics or appearance

This really does sound like you are talking about what your recipients are going to see. If setting a default for that is in fact what you are after, Mail doesn't have this feature, and users who need this often switch to Outlook, which does offer it.


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