MAIL FONTS - help!!

I have set my outgoing email font to ARIAL 12, and set the signature to be the same.
However, people receiving my emails on a PC are seeing the message body in one font and the signature in ARIAL 12.
What can I do to ensure that everyone receives my emails in the font which I want?
Please help!
Thanks!

I agree, they should let us set the default font for sending messages, not just for how they display on our own computers.
In the mean time, I've figure out a way around it, still not perfect but slightly less time consuming than other solutions:
Since Mail does respect my choice of font on signatures, I've created my default signature to include my standard "hello" and then a blank space before my actual signature so now if I start typing my message after the "hello" which is in the right font, the rest of it will be too. The only annoying part is that there is a extra empty line before "hello", but I just delete that line.

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