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I've been using exclusively plain-text email for a long time, and it's not even for security; I want to be able to respect people's font choice. When you send
by tombert 3y ago
I've been using exclusively plain-text email for a long time, and it's not even for security; I want to be able to respect people's font choice.
When you send HTML emails, the font is chosen by the sender, which normally is fine, but some people prefer to use dyslexic-friendly fonts (e.g. OpenDyslexic or Comic Sans) to read their email, and I don't want my message to be artificially more difficult to read.
Since most emails really don't need elaborate formatting, I'm not 100% sure why this isn't the default.
- eviks 3y agoWhat prevents the client app from overriding this font option? Plain text disrespects readability aspect since you lose the most basic highlighting like bold/italics
- tombert 3y agoI don’t think anything “stops” you from overriding the font, outside of potentially breaking formatting. It just doesn’t appear to be directly enabled on most clients; it seems like most clients will default to the font the email uses for HTML.