rexarski

Mail font

Accidentally changed the default font of macOS Mail.app, and was super surprised to see there’s no option to “reset to defaults”. Plus, there’s no other ways to select a “system font”.

Found the following post StackExchange - How do I choose “System Font” in the font picker? to work around. Also improvised a little bit to reset both fixed-width and message fonts. (You need to view the binary file at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist to identify the attribute names but I’ve done the heavy lifting for you.)

defaults delete -app Mail NSFont
defaults delete -app Mail NSFixedPitchFont
defaults delete -app Mail MessageListFont
defaults delete -app Mail NSFixedPitchFontSize
defaults delete -app Mail NSFontSize

It worked.

#macos