diff --git a/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text-element.ts b/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text-element.ts
index 132a0a95ad1368d6ae21cf051c04454b853ce1b0..8c84d669ce214793a2845f9677571f311c0b6d68 100644
--- a/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text-element.ts
+++ b/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text-element.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ export class TextElement extends UIElement implements PositionedElement, FontEle
     this.positionProps = initPositionedElement(serializedElement);
     this.fontProps = initFontElement(serializedElement);
     this.surfaceProps = initSurfaceElement(serializedElement);
-    delete this.fontProps.fontSize;
 
     this.height = serializedElement.height || 78;
     this.surfaceProps.backgroundColor =
diff --git a/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text.component.ts b/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text.component.ts
index e689efe14f74eae7efaa278b6d308a2b203b1ff1..9271d759a82c1d7906f835bb561fa792574a821a 100644
--- a/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text.component.ts
+++ b/projects/common/ui-elements/text/text.component.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ import { ValueChangeElement } from '../../models/uI-element';
            [style.background-color]="elementModel.surfaceProps.backgroundColor"
            [style.color]="elementModel.fontProps.fontColor"
            [style.font-family]="elementModel.fontProps.font"
+           [style.font-size.px]="elementModel.fontProps.fontSize"
            [style.line-height.%]="elementModel.fontProps.lineHeight"
            [style.font-weight]="elementModel.fontProps.bold ? 'bold' : ''"
            [style.font-style]="elementModel.fontProps.italic ? 'italic' : ''"
diff --git a/projects/editor/src/app/components/dialogs/rich-text-edit-dialog.component.ts b/projects/editor/src/app/components/dialogs/rich-text-edit-dialog.component.ts
index 842438cc0b11ca29dc023f5c4d22f47faf138141..65f19fb8ffa7b7997fa6c2dfabed2e50ba686ce1 100644
--- a/projects/editor/src/app/components/dialogs/rich-text-edit-dialog.component.ts
+++ b/projects/editor/src/app/components/dialogs/rich-text-edit-dialog.component.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@ import { Component, Inject } from '@angular/core';
 import { MAT_DIALOG_DATA } from '@angular/material/dialog';
 
 @Component({
-  selector: 'app-rich-text-edit-dialog-tinymce',
+  selector: 'app-rich-text-edit-dialog',
   template: `
     <mat-dialog-content>
-      <app-rich-text-editor [(text)]="data.text" [showCloseElements]="data.showCloseElements"></app-rich-text-editor>
+      <app-rich-text-editor [(text)]="data.text"
+                            [showCloseElements]="data.showCloseElements"
+                            [defaultFontSize]="data.defaultFontSize">
+      </app-rich-text-editor>
     </mat-dialog-content>
     <mat-dialog-actions>
       <button mat-button [mat-dialog-close]="data.text">{{'save' | translate }}</button>
@@ -14,5 +17,8 @@ import { MAT_DIALOG_DATA } from '@angular/material/dialog';
     `
 })
 export class RichTextEditDialogComponent {
-  constructor(@Inject(MAT_DIALOG_DATA) public data: { text: string, showCloseElements?: boolean }) { }
+  constructor(@Inject(MAT_DIALOG_DATA) public data: {
+    text: string,
+    defaultFontSize: number,
+    showCloseElements?: boolean }) { }
 }
diff --git a/projects/editor/src/app/services/dialog.service.ts b/projects/editor/src/app/services/dialog.service.ts
index 36f46befe969084ab29294ba267e128721972a21..70c2c6c348bc62a1c99d9269d8e2702284078b49 100644
--- a/projects/editor/src/app/services/dialog.service.ts
+++ b/projects/editor/src/app/services/dialog.service.ts
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ export class DialogService {
     return dialogRef.afterClosed();
   }
 
-  showRichTextEditDialog(text: string): Observable<string> {
+  showRichTextEditDialog(text: string, defaultFontSize: number): Observable<string> {
     const dialogRef = this.dialog.open(RichTextEditDialogComponent, {
       data: {
-        text: text
+        text: text,
+        defaultFontSize: defaultFontSize
       },
       autoFocus: false
     });
diff --git a/projects/editor/src/app/services/unit.service.ts b/projects/editor/src/app/services/unit.service.ts
index dbb6b6b1c0fb6879ef7592807c8c25842143ceb2..23259d0e3bdc96654336ae029c93571bb3059117 100644
--- a/projects/editor/src/app/services/unit.service.ts
+++ b/projects/editor/src/app/services/unit.service.ts
@@ -361,7 +361,9 @@ export class UnitService {
         });
         break;
       case 'text':
-        this.dialogService.showRichTextEditDialog((element as TextElement).text).subscribe((result: string) => {
+        this.dialogService.showRichTextEditDialog(
+          (element as TextElement).text, (element as TextElement).fontProps.fontSize as number
+        ).subscribe((result: string) => {
           if (result) {
             // TODO add proper sanitization
             this.updateElementProperty(
diff --git a/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.html b/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.html
index a9539a63b5d49f55ab725fc68401057b2b886429..a0ac6502a7df81db7525a14294e24f11d08c8f72 100644
--- a/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.html
+++ b/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.html
@@ -232,5 +232,7 @@
     </button>
   </div>
 </div>
-<tiptap-editor [editor]="editor" [ngModel]="text" (ngModelChange)="textChange.emit($event)">
+<tiptap-editor [editor]="editor" [ngModel]="text"
+               [style.font-size.px]="defaultFontSize"
+               (ngModelChange)="textChange.emit($event)">
 </tiptap-editor>
diff --git a/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.ts b/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.ts
index dea688f4afddb7e362846c97eeac27d881ebb02f..a3e8f26a935844128ee9419ef4275a5c8a820a02 100644
--- a/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.ts
+++ b/projects/editor/src/app/text-editor/rich-text-editor.component.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { orderedListExtension } from './orderedList-extension';
 })
 export class RichTextEditorComponent implements AfterViewInit {
   @Input() text!: string;
+  @Input() defaultFontSize!: number;
   @Input() showCloseElements: boolean | undefined = false;
   @Output() textChange = new EventEmitter<string>();