New Gmail Labs feature – Default Text Styling – allows you to choose the font that you want to use when you compose new emails.

Being everything cool with Gmail the one major feature that I always looked forward was a way to change the default font (Arial) that Gmail uses when you compose new email messages. Arial is a good font but when it comes to using it in emails it always lacked that readability compared to, let’s say, Verdana.

I think my wait is finally over. The awesome folks over at Gmail Labs just came up with a way to change the default font used when you compose new Gmail messages. To make use of it you need to enable the feature in Gmail Labs and choose the default font on Gmail Settings.

Visit the Gmail Labs page and scroll all the way down (in most cases) to locate “Default Text Styling“. Enable the feature and make sure to “Save Changes” at the bottom of the page.

Once enabled you have to now choose the font that you want to use as the default font. This time visit Gmail “Settings” page and locate “Default Text Style“. It’s pretty much self-explanatory afterwards. Choose the font, size, style and color and save the changes. Your Gmail page will reload and from now on when you compose new emails using Gmail the font you chose will be used as the default font.

I’m excited to see this feature at Gmail as I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I’m sure you’ll also appreciate the usefulness of this feature. I hope this Labs feature make it to the core feature-set soon.