Fixed-width or monospace fonts in Sparrow

If you’ve been playing around with the Sparrow email application, like me, and you’ve been enjoying it, like me, and you’re a geek, like me, then its rigorous use of Arial everywhere probably drives you crazy. Like me.

Thanks to Vinicius Horewicz, with the penchant for lolcats talk, the problem is solved.

1. Close Sparrow
2. Wander over to /Applications/Sparrow.app/Contents/Resources/
3. Make a backup of message-editing.css and conversations.css.
4. Edit message-editing.css, replace font-family in the body stanza with your favorite font. For me, that’s Liberation Mono.
5. Edit conversations.css, replace font-family in the div.-sparrow-messageBody and div.-sparrow-quickReplyTextContents with your favorite font.
6. Restart Sparrow.
7. Feel a little closer to your mutt, pine, and Mailx roots.

// message-editing.css
body { font-family: Liberation Mono; }

// conversation.css
div.-sparrow-messageBody { font-family: Liberation Mono; }
div.-sparrow-quickReplyTextContents { font-family: Liberation Mono; }