While opening #9523, I decided that since the developers might disagree with my position I should separate this out so that the two issues (font and color) don't get confused.
Here's how to reproduce the problem I'm seeing:
- Go to the messages pane of the Adium preferences
- If the "show received message fonts" checkbox is selected, deselect it.
- Select the Stockholm messagestyle.
- Note the size of the message "Away for the sake of being away".
- Select "show received message fonts".
- Note the size of the message "Away for the sake of being away".
One could argue that "received message fonts" should include not only the font-family (typeface) but also the font-size, but surely "receives message colors" would not! For the record, I think selecting "received message fonts" should change only the font-family, and not the font size.