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Resolved Mail message body font too small, and I can't seem to be able to change it.

PinkyMacGodess

PinkyMacGodess

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I'm on a mailing list, and this is the first message I've gotten after the Monterey upgrade, and its message body text is really so tiny it is almost illegible.

It's not funny, and I can't seem to be able to change it. I checked 'fonts and colors', and of the tree types of fonts, none change the message font.

I believe the body is HTML, and I went to Safari, and can't seem to find the font size adjustment in there. This is more than a little annoying. I'm old, but not *that* old...

Hmm... How hard can it be to hide something like that. Why hide it. If it's not adjustable, WTH... This is a show stopper.

This is to laggy MacBook Pro I have. I guess I should be happy, the lagging hasn't happened yet, but if I have to hold the damn thing in front of my face, this isn't a good upgrade. *sigh*

EDIT: AND the lagging is Is Still Here. It lagged several times while editing this post. And what's with the red bar segments that race across the top of the screen when posting/saving? Sometimes they run for minutes, left to right, over and over again. Hmm. Problems, dang it.
 
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There is no way to control the formatting of incoming HTML messages.

In Preferences / Fonts and colors you can set font size for plain text messages.
 
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Yes, because Tim Apple assumes you are sitting with your 8K screen at 1080p ultrasuperduperretina scaling, so there is no system wide preference for setting font size to x %.

In Safari, you can set a minimum font size, but it doesn't carry over to Mail, and there is no equivalent setting.
 
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I do remember a client that got an iMac, at my urging, and was having problems reading the screen. They set the default font to a larger size, and it broke many things. Some surprising things. Some stuff was illegible, and other things were so obnoxiously weirdly displayed that I wondered the efficacy of dialing up the font size. I wondered the degree of support, the 'depth' of support for people with limited eyesight. I played around with the magnifying glass, and it helped, but it to was a clownish way of dealing with a very frustrating part of aging. *sigh* As I have gotten older, I have found a whole new realization of the impetus for my aging family members complaints about the world around them. Not that I'm saying this issue is age related, but it is a problem for people that do have marked eyesight difficulties as they do age.

There *should* be a way to more effectively deal with this issue, but at least your workaround (still) works.

Much thanks...
 
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