Setting the default Font colour in email messages.

When using the mail program the Font and Colours option which is available by clicking on Mail and then on preferences does not work properly. I can not get the Text colour to change. I do get the colour wheel but I can't select a colour. It only stays as black. I would like to be able to change the default colour of my email messages to something other than black.

If the color wheel is black grab the intensity slider (immediately to the right of the color wheel) and drag it all the way to the top. This should "light up" the color wheel and give you some choices other than all black.

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Is there any way to change the default font for outgoing text-messages, in "Messages"? (OSX 10.10)

Is there any way to change the default font for outgoing text-messages, in "Messages"?
I can change it for one conversation, but then it resets to the default, tiny font.
The preferences menu only lets me change the conversation font.
(OSX 10.10)

Hi,
As you may remember there used to be a Messages pane to the Preferences where the Font and colour of the Balloons or background and the Font text colour could be changed.
And there was a Format Menu for character, word and Sentence changes in the current IM or iMessage.
Those have gone in Yosemite's version of Messages (Despite it retaining the designation of Messages 8 the same as Mavericks' version).
All that can be done now is set the size of the font and this has been moved to the General Section of the Preferences.
The Yosemite version has also been fixed to using the Balloons style of send and receiving any type of messages as well.
Changing the Font would involved editing the Balloon.transcript file.
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Setting the default font

Hey,
I was just wondering if there is a way to set the default font to whatever you want. It is especially frustrating for footnotes (no matter how many times you change the font of your footnotes, every subsequent footnote is created in the default Helvetica).
I've looked around in Help and such but can't find any option to set the default font.
Thank you!
Jesse.

Jessiah87 wrote:
Hey,
I was just wondering if there is a way to set the default font to whatever you want. It is especially frustrating for footnotes (no matter how many times you change the font of your footnotes, every subsequent footnote is created in the default Helvetica).
I've looked around in Help and such but can't find any option to set the default font.
I described several time ways to do that.
It requires surgery in the index.xml file describing the used template.
Assuming that the used template is Blank.template.
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Save it as my_Blank.pages.
Using the scheme which I described many times, open its index.xml file.
To do that I use the free TextWrangler.
Search for "footnote" to reach this block of code :
You see the entry spelled <sf:fontName/>
Edit it as :
<sf:fontName>
<sf:string sfa:string="LucidaGrande"/>
</sf:fontName>
to get :
Of course, you may use an other fontname.
The rule is to use the official internal fontname.
I already posted a long list of such names.
Save the edited index.xml file
If the original document contained a index.xml.gz file, remove it so that when you will open the doc it will be forced to use the edited index.
Create a new document
Leave it empty and save it as a custom template : my_Blank.template in the dedicated folder.
Each time you will create a document starting from this template, the footnotes will be automatically created using LucidaGrande
Some lines below the fontName descriptor is the fontSize one.
The default one is :
<sf:fontSize>
<sf:number sfa:number="10" sfa:type="f"/>
</sf:fontSize>
You may edit it as
<sf:fontSize>
<sf:number sfa:number="9" sfa:type="f"/>
</sf:fontSize>
or an other integer value so the footnotes will default to this fontSize.
Of course, double check what you do.
When you will be satisfied of the result, maybe you will wish to edit the inthebox template.
It may be done but it's an other story.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 6 mars 2011 21:50:14

Oh! Then what I want to do is change the default font on my email, documents etc. how do I do that.

Oh! Then what I want to do is change the default font on my email, documents etc. How do I do that?

Hi stom353,
If you would like to change the fonts in Mail, you may find the following article helpful (the font options are located under menu bar item Mail => Preferences => Fonts & Colors):
Mail (Mavericks): Fonts & Colors preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14863
Regards,
- Brenden

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Message Menu > Preferences > Messages section.
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