Change Default Font When Viewing Plain-Text Emails
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When I view plaintext emails in the built in mail client, they are shows in a monospace font. Monospace fonts are great and all, but I would much prefer to read my emails in a serif font. As far as I can tell, there is no way to change this.
I think the solution to this problem would be to add an option to change to default font family when viewing text emails in settings.
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Nowadays everybody receives a mixture of HTML and textual (including markdown or other markups) emails. It's highly inconsistent experience to read such email mixture (even from the same author) every time with different font, different font size, etc.
Possible solutions I can see:
- Don't use monospace font for textual emails, but use the default Sans font as for web pages.
- Make it configurable which font and which font size shall be used for textual emails.
- Make it configurable which email body zoom level shall be used for textual emails and which zoom level for other emails.
I think the solution (1) is the easiest one and will match the behavior of the biggest mail clients (including web clients like Gmail, Microsoft Office 365, etc.) and thus user expectation.
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I do not really understand the point here. One could equally say receiving HTML mails is inconsistent experience, because each one is formatted differently.
In any case I am against the first point. Monoscpace is quite useful for text messages if someone wants to do some minimal formatting without using more complicated structures like HTML.
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@maiiler Opera 12.18 already has this. It is an important usability issue. I don't think monospaced fonts are the best, but users should be able to choose the font and font size that they want. The Email composition form can be zoomed in or out to suit users with poor vision without increasing the font size for the recipients.
HTML Email composition allows users to set the default colour too. Opera 12.18 is so customisable, which is why we loved it. I am still waiting for so many things like this to become available in Vivaldi.
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Currently, it isn't even in my default monospaced font. It is in something like Courier, my default is Consolas. (Courier is a monospaced font with serifs, Consolas without.)
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@sgunhouse Your default where? System‐wide or in
vivaldi://settings/webpages/
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@sgunhouse When I referred to wanting to change the font to a serif font, I was thinking of something like Times New Roman. The monospace font the email client is currently using by default does have serifs.
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@luetage Silly question, as there are no system-wide preferences except things like menus and the desktop - and neither of them mentions or uses a monospace font.
This is Vivaldi's settings; they seem to be ignored for plain text (non-HTML) e-mails in M3.
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@sgunhouse I was unsure, because I had the same default monospace font for OS and Vivaldi. Changing the default monospace font in
webpages
, changes it for plaintext mail. If it doesn’t for you, it’s probably a bug.@BigRed314159 If you really don’t wanna see a monospace font (except for sites which specify an existing one or load a webfont), you can change the monospace default to a serif font. You probably won’t see much difference around the web, except for your Vivaldi plaintext mails.
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Actually, you're right - other than i and l which would be too narrow without some decoration, they don't have serifs. Unless they fixed it without saying anything, I just wasn't paying enough attention.
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@BigRed314159 If you really don’t wanna see a monospace font (except for sites which specify an existing one or load a webfont), you can change the monospace default to a serif font. You probably won’t see much difference around the web, except for your Vivaldi plaintext mails.
Changing my default monospace font to a serif font like Times does fix the problem I had when reading plaintext emails, but creates unwanted spill over effects. Most notably, when I read code online it is now displayed in Times too which is undesirable.