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mac mail tip: huge signature problem & fix
This past Friday, a few hours before I had to submit a draft of a concept letter I’ve been working on all week, my colleague Cheryl dropped a casual “oh by the way” information bomb that sidetracked me for a good half hour.
She informed me that my work emails, being sent from my Mac OSX Mail Client, had HUGE signatures attached. Meaning, my professionally worded emails in Helvetica 12 point font, were being appended with grotesque 14 point font signatures! I don’t know what it is about large fonts but something about it screams “dumb”! I might as well have been putting my signature in a Comic Sans font! With a moving .gif file!
I tried fixing it by varying the font sizes and sending test emails to my gmail account and finally googled it. It was one of those moments where you wish you had started out googling cause the answer isn’t logical but it works. Moral of the story: Google first, think second. Terrible, I know.
Here’s the working solution posted by GilbertLau on the MacRumors Forum:
1. create a new signature
2. send out a test email and you should see the problem
3. do not check the box “always match my default message font”
4. go to preferences, then fonts and colours, under message font, choose a font size that you’re not going to use, say 364. go back to the signature that you just created, you should see that the font of the signature was automatically changed to 36 too. now select the signature text, right click and choose font->show fonts, then change the font size to your desired size, say 13
5. send out a test email and the font size of the email content should be 36 while the font size of signature should be 13
6. go to the preference again and change the message font to your desired font size, say 13 as to be the same as signature
7. send out a test email again and now you should see that everything is working perfectly!
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Thanks Gilbert! Thanks Cheryl!
