Changing Font on Outlook Mobile App for Android

Anonymous
2020-04-25T15:13:48+00:00

Is it possible to change the font on the Outlook mobile app for android? I don't see an option to change the font within the actual app and even if I change the font for the entire phone it still appears as Calibri. I want to change it to Times New Roman (consistent with my desktop default font). I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S10+, but I do not think that makes a difference.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-04-17T18:16:42+00:00

    The problem is not about the font the app uses, because the app DOESN'T SPECIFY A FONT. This means that the font used for display is whichever font has been set as default in the client where the email is received.

    Outlook for Android uses a <body> tag for normal text and gives you two other options - subhead and Title. All either of those does is to add a bold attribute to the text. You can check this by sending yourself an email and looking at the raw HTML of the message.

    People report seeing different things because they are reading the emails using different clients, or clients with different default fonts set.

    As an example, here is what the Outlook client on Windows does:

    To Change the Font on Incoming Messages (slipstick.com)

    Hope this helps

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-19T16:05:31+00:00

    I'm using Outlook Lite on Android. The font is tiny, and doesn't conform to my OS settings. Also, I don't see an option to increase font size in the app. This makes the app unusable.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-26T16:16:18+00:00

    Bump. I am using the iOS outlook app in April, 2022 and the app still defaults to Calibri, and I do not see an option to set this.

    Edit - reading theses last few comments, I can confirm that in the signature, you can paste in a font and use it in your signature. You cannot set the font in the email body.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-08T13:37:19+00:00

    Having a different text type from the signature line and other emails when sending from your phone is a very unpolished look. A fix would be nice for consistency across all platforms...

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-02T18:30:59+00:00

    Hey Soccerush,

    This is a good workaround, but did you look at the one on Dec 3rd? SaP-19 posted it and it doesn't require you to paste every time. The formatting is embedded in a (blank) signature. Might save you a bit of time and effort!

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