What if I don’t use these email signature safe fonts? If you don’t use one of the above fonts in your signature, chances are the recipients mail client will fallback to using the second font you specify in the font-family property (which you should be doing) of your email signature.

Email messages that are sent from Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac or Outlook for Mac 2011 to other operating systems may have with a different font size than the original email message font size. For example, when text that has Calibri font size 14 is sent from Outlook for Mac to Microsoft Outlook for Windows or Outlook Web App, the text may be displayed as a font size other than 14 when the message is received on the other operating system. Standardization, Outlook Style One such setting that became necessary very recently was the need to standardize on a common Outlook email experience. After years of dealing with inconsistencies in how emails looked from different users, our company decided to enforce a specific typeface, font size, and color for every corporate email.

If the second font is also unavailable, it will then use the third specified font, and so on. You don’t ever want to rely on this as a way to structure your email signature, as your email signature may look much different on the recipients mail client, than it did when you sent it, only because it will be using a different non standard font. If you’re confused about which fonts you should be using, you can always use to create your email signature. All fonts in ZippySig are web safe fonts. • Select from a font in the list above and consider what font your company uses. • Use 10-12pt font sizing for best readability, or you can use 14pt if your customers are visually impaired. • Try not to use italics or bolding, except if you are trying to convey an important message to the recipient as their eyes will naturally be drawn to anything that is italic or bold.

This might include your company text, such as “The taste of Japan” in. Using it once in the email signature to convey the message is fine and it wont look too unsightly. • Use the same font for the body of your email and your email signature.

There is nothing worse than seeing an Arial font for the body of the email and then seeing Times New Roman font for the email signature. If your company uses Arial to send out emails, then use Arial in the email signature. • Don’t use more than 2 colors in the text, otherwise it will look like a rainbow (the example below).

• Use a darker font color such as black, dark grey, brown etc. Don’t use a light color such as yellow or pink as it becomes much harder to read the text. Which font is the easiest to read for email signatures? Studies have shown that Arial in 12pt size is the easiest font to read on a computer screen. The second easiest is Verdana in a 10pt size. Text edit programs for mac. Notice that both of these fonts are sans-serif?

Serif fonts are proven harder to read on a computer screen as the resolution of the screen makes it harder to see the strokes on the end of the letters on a serif font. You should definitely consider these things when deciding what font to use for your email signature. After all, why would you want to make your email harder to read, right? In the example above, we have used at least 5 different fonts and 5 different colors. You can see (hopefully) how absolutely terrible this signature looks and how anyone viewing it would think its a joke, or a very informal email that you are sending. Believe it or not, we have seen these sorts of email signatures in our time, and its not as uncommon as you might think.

If you follow our best practices above, you cant go wrong. If you’re still not confident, you can always use to make your email signature with safe fonts.

I also went through the template, but you are right - there seems to be no option to fix a font. There is one option to make it mandatory to use the font of the stationery (using gpedi.msc: User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 -> Tools Options -> Mail Format -> Stationery and Fonts -> Stationery Fonts: allows you three options - Use the font specified in stationery - Use user's font on replies and fwds - Always use user's fonts You may try to experiment with that (and limiting the stationeries users can have/use). I also searched the registry; it does not appear as if the default font is kept in there.