Does Size Matter?

Does font size in e-mail matter? What if you receive an e-mail where the font is much larger than normal? Do larger fonts mean that the person is yelling or screaming at you?

It would make a difference on how the larger font is used. Unless the sender or recipient is vision impaired and requires the larger font size for obvious reasons, anything larger than the standard default font size can be perceived as adding emphasis. Otherwise why would one make the font larger?

This is all about perception and trying to determine one's intent by how they choose to communicate with their e-mail. Since it takes a manual setting change to increase the font size -- folks may assume there is a reason for doing so. And if it is much larger, yes, they may take it that you mean to yell or scream.

So keep your font size set at the default of your e-mail software program -- that is unless you are trying to make a point!