diff --git a/k9mail/src/main/java/com/fsck/k9/message/html/HtmlSanitizer.java b/k9mail/src/main/java/com/fsck/k9/message/html/HtmlSanitizer.java
index edb4eb972..ae2d81c45 100644
--- a/k9mail/src/main/java/com/fsck/k9/message/html/HtmlSanitizer.java
+++ b/k9mail/src/main/java/com/fsck/k9/message/html/HtmlSanitizer.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ public class HtmlSanitizer {
     HtmlSanitizer() {
         Whitelist whitelist = Whitelist.relaxed()
                 .addTags("font", "hr", "ins", "del")
+                .addAttributes("font", "color", "face", "size")
                 .addAttributes("table", "align", "background", "bgcolor", "border", "cellpadding", "cellspacing",
                         "width")
                 .addAttributes("tr", "align", "bgcolor", "valign")