Set Default Font Choices For Messages You Send And Receive In Mavericks Beta [OS X Tips]

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Message Font Choices

In the OS X 10.8 version of Messages on the Mac, you can set the background color of your own messages, and you can set the background color, font, and font color of anyone who sends you messages.

Now, though, in OS X Mavericks, you can do all those things, plus send messages in your own choice of font, as well as let your friends send you messages with their own font choices.

Here’s how to make that happen.

Launch Messages on the Mac you’re running OS X Mavericks beta on, and hit Command-Comma, or choose Preferences… from the Messages menu. Click on the Viewing tab at the top, or what used to be the Messages tab. The options in the View section look fairly similar, with a couple of subtle differences.

First, notice that you can now set your own font. Click on the My font popup menu and choose one of the three options there, or click on Other… to get the full font window.

Just below that, you’ll see the section for your friends’ font and message options. To see messages sent to you in the font, font color, and background color the sender intends, set the popup menu next to each option to Automatic. Now you’ll see what they mean you to see, though it’ll probably still be the default. Because who messes with these things, anyway, right? If you end up hating their font choices, then set them to something different here in these menus. Nice!

Pro tip – if you copy text from a document that has a specific font and style attached to it, pasting your text into Messages will now keep those format choices and send them along.

Via: Tips & Tricks In Mavericks

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