Try the Stationery addon, which allows you to choose from multiple templates when starting a new message. The chosen template may contain font specifiers. You may have to learn a little sbout html/css markup to use it effectively. But you should be sble to create a useful template by starting as if you were writing an email message, setting up your fonts and then saving it as an html file for subsequent re-use via the Stationery add-on.

It always vexes me when non-technical people start dictating how things should be done, without any understanding of how it works. The QA department at my place of work is a case in point. You're given printed documents to fill in by hand, and these are subsequently transcribed (by QA staff) into another document. Other documents are scanned and the unsearchable pdf files stored. This is considered (within QA) to be "high tech".

The lowest common denominator in email is plain text. Any email message should be designed snd constructed with this in mind, accepting that at some point it time, it can and may be processed as plain text. From this point of view, worrying sbout fonts snd layout is rather a waste of time.

Hi Zenos, thx for the quick answer... will look into Stationary... had it installed (for different reasons ) some time ago but bounced off by the time it needed to setup...will give it a more intensive try ...

Not sure how you mean the "It always vexes me when non-technical people start dictating how things should be done, without any understanding of how it ..." ... you mean that I should not bother about font and sent plain text files to clients?

Would formatting my mails make them (or break them) to unreadability ?

Thx a million

Dan

When we type a letter to be printed on paper, and put into the snail mail, we can be absolutely certain that the reader will see it exactly as we wish them to see it (assuming they have normal vision). So we can make indirect statements about ourselves through choice of font, colour, layout etc.

Email appears to be able to do the same. But if you send an email message that is intended to convey the same unspoken statement via its look and feel, you have to be aware that some of the nuances may not survive the journey.

Email doesn't have a page size. It generally just flows to fit the display window. So line lengths, paragraph formatting and other layout considerations will just vanish.

The recipient's email client may be set to override and substitute some formatting choices used by the author.

The recipient's computer may be of a different type (MAC/Linux/Windows) and so running a different operating system with different default fonts. The font you chose may not be available, so a substitute will be used.

If you have purchased or installed a non-standard font to create your own specific style, the chances of any recipient having it are near to zero.

In practice, given the prevalence of Windows in the business world, if you use the default built-in fonts then there's a very good chance the recipient will see it more or less as you intended.

There are ways to use non-standard fonts. For instance, Google Fonts allows you to specify a free-to-use font held on a server which can be downloaded on demand and used to display your message. However in a business environment, you should expect such things to be blocked or at least managed by corporate security systems and firewalls.

Anyone who decides to use, or mandates the use of fonts to establish a corporate look-and-feel needs to understand that email isn't necessarily going to preserve their styling. Unfortunately, those who make these decisions are often not aware of the limitations of their chosen method. Just as my QA people don't see any problem with documents being stored as large unsearchable PDF files. I don't think they know what OCR is, let alone considered using it to create a text digest for each document.

HI Zenos, wow, thanks for the detailed explaination...learned a lot!!!!

Thank you for your time to come to my aide and even explain it so well!!

Kudos (do they still use that word??)

Best Daniel