Font and Type Override

Those details are usually theme dependent. Within your sites/themes/yourtheme/ directory should be a CSS file (often, style.css, or if you're using a child theme, yourthemename.css), and you would set your font size, type, and color within that like any CSS document.

If you need to override those defaults for something else, you can always wrap the text in a div or span with a custom style when you write the actual post. I do this frequently on my site -- most of my site is done in Georgia, but for certain poems, I need a monospaced font, so I wrap those poems in a div set with font-family: Courier New.

Does that help? I can try to explain a little clearer if not.

Hey Gabriel,

Yeah that definitely gives me a better idea of what's going on. Once I access the CSS file, can I change the fonts directly, or should I stick to div/span's? I'd like to make the text on my site bigger overall for readability. I was just introduced to the span commands through some customization with the theme I'm using.

Could you write out the syntax for that (with a size variable if possible?). Then I can monkey around with it and see what works for me.

Thanks!

To make your font size bigger overall, specify the font size you want in the body spec in your CSS file.

A good cheat sheet to CSS specs: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

If you use Firefox, I suggest getting the extension Firebug. Once installed, it will let you right-click on any part of the page and choose to see its specific CSS and what style sheet it's coming from. Makes editing/overriding style sheets infinitely easier.

Thanks for the references MeiLin!

Hey there,

I've been experimenting with div and span and I'm still having trouble.

In my style.css sheet, under typography, I have:

.seclednar {
font-family: Calligraph810 BT;
font-size: 13 pt;

}

When I put in a div tag like below, I'm still not getting any change (my filter is set to full html).

< div class="Seclednar">Text text text< /div>

I've also tried:

< span style="font-family: Calligraph810 BT;">Text Text Text< /span>

and

< P STYLE="font-family: Calligraph810 BT">text text text< /P>

With no result (sans spaces, I did that so they'd show up).

A span tag for font-size has worked, which just left me confused.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something fundamental (I'm basically copy-pasting from a tutorial), putting the div block in the wrong area of the style sheet, or if the theme is somehow overriding it. When I look at it in Firebug everything appears to be there. Do I need to enable unusual fonts somewhere?

These are the tutorials I've been using:

• http://webdesign.about.com/od/fonts/a/aa082400a.htm
• http://www.mako4css.com/BasDiv.htm
• http://www.webreference.com/authoring/style/sheets/syntax.html

Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!

UPDATE: Okay, for some reason putting the div/span syntax in the page itself doesn't give me results, but editing it in Firebug does. Still a glitch though: When I try to use Calligrapher810 BT, the font changes, but not to the correct font, like it isn't available or something. Is this browser or style sheet dependent?

Show me the page.

Hi Meilin,

Here's an example of the span tag: http://metraylor.com/water1

I used the span tag for Georgia.

One thing I noticed trying to edit the font in Firebug was that it only wanted to let me do it one paragraph at at time, which didn't seem very efficient. In the body I put the /span tag at the end, and in Firebug it shows up at the end of the first line. When I tried using a WYSIWYG editor, it did something similar, which you can see at http://metraylor.com/beginning.

For an example of the div tag: http://metraylor.com/credits

Thanks for checking it out!

UPDATE: Hmm... I just had a sneaking suspicion and went and checked the page on the other computer. My div tag appears to be working there, but not the span tag. Well, it's progress!

*Glee*

I have managed to get the fonts to do everything I want them to. I don't know if you got to looking at it or not Meilin, but thanks for being open to checking it out. Thanks everyone who commented, giving me inspiration to bang my head against the wall in marginally different ways.