Apple Mail font colour issue

Question

Wanted to know if anyone else was having this same font annomaly?
When in Mail, if I ever need to change my text colour to black through the "Click to choose text color" toolbar option (for example if I have copied text that was in a different colour from a web site and want to change it to black, or if I have changed my text colour for emphasis and need to change back to black), the text does not go to black, it turns white. I can begin composing any email in black fine, but simply cannot ever change text back to black.
This does not seem to affect any other colour, and if I select "Show colors" and change to black through the "Color wheel" it's fine (very poor internationalisation with the spelling of "color", by the way. Has everyone stopped reading the OS X Human Interface Guidelines since beginning development of Lion?!), it's almost as if the wrong colour value has been assigned to the black box. I know that greyscale is the new standard for Apple's toolbars and sidebars, etc, but removing black as a text option seems a little extreme!

Answer 1

Hello,
I have also, as everybody I think this issue.
Unfortunatly, it seems no solution available by Apple and plugin I tested (universalmailler, messagefont) or other don't solve it.
Well, I made my own service with automator (for mail.app, w/o entry) with such code below and assign it to hot key ^R (ctrl R):
I know this code is quick and dirty, but it function for me (OSX maverick, french) and now answer and previous text from sender are formatted in Arial, 16pts, blue dark color.
If somebody want to change it, improve it, no problem.
If somebody want more info, please tell me.
tell application "Mail"
          activate
end tell
delay 0.2
tell application "System Events"
                    keystroke "r" using command down
end tell
delay 0.2
tell application "System Events"
                    keystroke "a" using command down
end tell
delay 0.2
try
          set old to the clipboard as record
end try
delay 0.2
do shell script "textutil -stdin -stdout -format html -convert rtf <<< '<span style=\"font: 16px arial; color:#000099\">a</span>' | pbcopy"
tell application "System Events"
          keystroke "v" using command down
          keystroke "c" using {option down, command down}
          keystroke "z" using command down
          keystroke "v" using {option down, command down}
          key code 123
end tell
delay 0.05
try
          set the clipboard to old
end try