Seeing bigger fonts in mail reply

When I open my mail application, I see everything in small fonts. I dont use a browser for gmail since its reply box is too small and causes errors for serious emailing. In the mail app, if I do cmd++++ I see everything bigger. But when I press reply, then I am back to small fonts. If I do cmd++++ nothing happens. Then if I select everything using cmd+a, and then do cmd+++++ then the actual fonts and not the display gets bigger and the recipient gets an ugly mail with large lettering. If I do cmd+options+8, then everything becomes bigger in display but also blurry and ugly and it is not a pleasant working experience. How does one set the right defaults? Many thanks.

Morning Gerry,
There is no one permanently on station so to speak, to answer questions immediately. So it isn't realistic to post the same question twice in a matter of minutes.
I don't use the Lion OS so I can't be sure of the solution but you should update it to 10.7.4(or 5) if it is still available, for it may be the OS as Lion is on its last legs now. Do you have the RAM memory to go up to Yosemite?
In any event you should check out Mail > preferences > fonts ... which may help.

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