Too small UI fonts at Thunderbird [SOLVED]

Then fonts are unreadably small - here is a screenshot:
The same small fonts are all over the UI - in menus and other items. How could I fix them?

A frequent question of mine too. Happily, you can override the defaults if you don't like them.
To change the general UI font, you need to create a file called userChrome.css in the Chrome subdirectory of your ~/.thunderbird directory. In this file, you can specify any font you want. This file can be quite large and so I won't post it here. If you simply google "userChrome.css" you will find many, many examples. If you have Firefox installed, look in its embedded Chrome directory. Mine has a file called userChrome-example.css. Copy this to ~/.thunderbird's chrome folder and customize to your hearts content. It works quite well.
To change the font used for message composition, go to Edit, Preferences, Fonts. Oddly, to set the *color* of that font, you have to go elsewhere. Go to Edit, Preferences, Composition, HTML Options, Text Color. Here you can set both the foreground and background colors.

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thestinger wrote:
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