Viewing emails and/or the web with custom fonts -- please help!

[Crunch]

I'd like to get an answer that has plagued one of my friends with a unique vision problem for a long time. She just bought a new Lenovo laptop and she hates Windows 10. Well, so far we're on the same page.

She needs to be able to view the text in SERIF font regardless of the font that was used in the original message. She says she used to be able to do that in Windows 7 and now she can't.

She says she also was able to change the font in Internet Explorer, so the second question is, would she be able to do something similar in Safari? Perhaps install a font? She can't believe that this is such a big deal to pull off.

The Settings of various email clients and it only ever seems to allow you to change the size of the font, not the style of the font itself.

If I can get an answer for her and get this to work, she wants to return the Lenovo and buy a MacBook Pro instead.

I highly appreciate anyone who can assist me with this.

Thank you very much!

 

[BrianBaughn]

She might be better off just using a browser extension and using the webmail portal for whatever email service she uses.

For instance, the "Font Changer with Google Web Fonts" extension in Chrome.

 

[FLappleGuy]

Ok so I'll be honest I didn't try this before posting, as I can't get my Mail app to open at the moment due to a separate issue. However, according to my googling, the default Mail app on OSX allows you "To specify a default font face and size for composing (and reading) mail in Mac OS X Mail". Might be a solution for your friend, here's a link to the steps for implementing the feature: https://www.lifewire.com/change-default-os-x-mail-font-1172867

Hope that helps!

 

[Crunch]

Thank you both very much!

She wanted you to know that she appreciates your help immensely and that you cared enough to respond. The browser extension "Font Reader" for the Chrome browser is what did the trick for her. So again: Thank You!

I have also gotten to work on the Mail client and found that if you choose "Use classic mode" or something to that effect and then change the fonts, you can even make the list of the mails display in whatever font you want it. Pretty cool, although I'm personally fine with the default fonts.