What do plain text emails look like in Outlook by default?

I've been using rich text in my signature, so that all mails end up going rich text. I know that how it looks on the other end depends on the fonts they have, but I was wondering what plain text emails look like by default in Outlook. I don't remember because, if I recall correctly, one of the things I had changed when I used to use that beast was setting the font to a fixed width like courier for plain text. Thanks for any info. I'm just curious whether my plain text messages will look strange to my clients.
Mark

I've been using rich text in my signature, so that all mails end up going rich text. I know that how it looks on the other end depends on the fonts they have, but I was wondering what plain text emails look like by default in Outlook. I don't remember because, if I recall correctly, one of the things I had changed when I used to use that beast was setting the font to a fixed width like courier for plain text. Thanks for any info. I'm just curious whether my plain text messages will look strange to my clients.
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