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Consitent font size across HTML mail and signature in Thunderbird

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Luis
Luis

Hi community,

I want to have the same font and font-size in:

  • my HTML message body text
  • my signature.html file

so I can send consistent and nice-looking e-mails, like you would expect.

Here are my current settings:

  • Settings > General > Language & Fonts > Fonts >
    • Default font: Arial
    • Size: 12
    • Advanced: For both "Latin" and "Other Writing Systems" I have the settings you can see in the attached screenshots.

I heard that these settings are for personal viewing.

  • Settings > Composition > HTML Style >
    • Font: Arial
    • Size: Medium

I heard that these settings are for viewing by recipients.

The first line of my signature.html file looks like this: div style="font-family: 'Arial'; color: #222; line-height: 1.0; font-size: 14px;"

There is always a slight font size mismatch of the message text with my signature.

I unsuccesfully tried tweaking the html font size values in px or pt to match the given size in Settings > Composition > HTML Style for Medium or Large.

It seems that the available font size granularity of Medium or Large just does not match corresponding pixel or point values?

I would be extremely grateful if someone can guide me on how to achieve this!

If there is no valid solution for this problem, I'm happy to open/report an issue on this.

Thank you and have a wonderful day

Hi community, I want to have the same font and font-size in: * my HTML message body text * my signature.html file so I can send consistent and nice-looking e-mails, like you would expect. Here are my current settings: * Settings > General > Language & Fonts > Fonts > ** Default font: Arial ** Size: 12 ** Advanced: For both "Latin" and "Other Writing Systems" I have the settings you can see in the attached screenshots. I heard that these settings are for personal viewing. * Settings > Composition > HTML Style > ** Font: Arial ** Size: Medium I heard that these settings are for viewing by recipients. The first line of my signature.html file looks like this: div style="font-family: 'Arial'; color: #222; line-height: 1.0; font-size: 14px;" There is always a slight font size mismatch of the message text with my signature. I unsuccesfully tried tweaking the html font size values in px or pt to match the given size in Settings > Composition > HTML Style for Medium or Large. It seems that the available font size granularity of Medium or Large just does not match corresponding pixel or point values? I would be extremely grateful if someone can guide me on how to achieve this! If there is no valid solution for this problem, I'm happy to open/report an issue on this. Thank you and have a wonderful day
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david
david
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If I may offer a suggestion, if your intent is that the recipient focus on content and not on font, use font 'variable=width' and size medium in your settings>composition pane. That setting ensures that your message will be presented in the recipient's font and font size.. As you stated, the other settings in latin and other writing systems are for you, not the recipient. For your signature, also do not use a font or font size. That ensures that your sig will be consistent to recipient.

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