How to Enlarge Email Fonts on Mac

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Last Updated: April 8, 2021

If you’ve been squinting your eyes out trying to view those very little, hard-to-read fonts of the email messages on your Mac computer through the Mail app, then you don’t have to worry anymore. You can enlarge the email print on your messages to make it readable and easier on the eyes. Learn how by proceeding to step 1.

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Launch it by click it’s icon from the Dock located at the bottom part of the screen or from the Application list in Finder.
Click the “Mail” button on the upper-left corner of the Application menu, and a drop-down list of available menu options for the Mail app will appear.

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Select “Preferences” from the drop-down list to open the Preference window of the Mail app.
Click on “Fonts and Colors” on the upper part of the Preference window to go to the Fonts and Colors tab.
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Set the font size.
- Increase the text size of emails in Mail. Click Select next to “Message font,” then select a font size in the Fonts window.
- Increase the email inbox list font size. Click the “Select” button next to "Message list font" and select the size.
When done, close all windows to save your preferences, and go back to the main window of the Mail app. You’ll notice that the prints of the email messages have now changed to the ones you’ve set in the Preference window.

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How do I increase the font size when printing emails?

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You can go to the font box at the top of the print page. But before you do this, make sure you Select All and then change the size.

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I would like font size 16 from 14?

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To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Fonts & Colors. The font and font size for viewing the list of messages. To change the font or font size, click Select, then choose a different font or font size. The font and font size for writing and viewing messages.

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The instructions on how to increase font size in emails only worked on my responses but did not increase the size of incoming emails.

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Try going to "System Preferences," then go to "Select Displays," and click "Scaled." Finally, select a lower resolution. If you see icons with different-sized previews of text, select the icon that says "Larger Text," and click "OK."

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Changing the default font size (and style) of the Mail app will not affect custom text formatting (underline, bold, italic, etc.) of emails messages.

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When you print out email messages, the printed copy will follow the text settings of the Mail app.

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Aside from the size and style, you can also change the color of your font using the steps above.

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