The popular font used online for good readibility is the Arial family of fonts. And that is what I wanted to be used on this blog.
Remedy please? Well it ended up being easy to change. Now the Cutline Theme does not have any easy to use interface to change parameters like text styles as some more recent themes. However I could get access to the css stylesheet to edit the fonts.
I am not a css expert by a long shot. But when you look at any stylesheet it is easy to find and change any parameter in WordPress’ Appearance, Editor. By the way I’m using WordPress version 2.8 at the time of writing.
So first step was to find any font attributes in the stylesheet. Thats easy with my FireFox browser. I just hit Ctrl+F and enter “font”.
What I found as the default font family was:
font: 62.5% Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
Each time I found this text I replaced it with:
font: 62.5% Arial, Helvetica, Geneva;
Notice that I kept the 62.5% resizing attribute as I found it. I also got to sort out the double spacing between lines.
Now my blog is far easier to read. Don’t you think?
Hey, Wave! Found your Cutline blog tonight and really loved the look. So much so that I attempted to copy the directions above and, somehow, ended up with much different results.
The blogroll, archives & categories lists were already messed up, I think from editing a widget and somehow deleting a terminal code somewhere. Can troubleshoot that separately. For now, my fonts are much larger than yours. And the only changes I’ve made were to the stylesheet.css.
I’d welcome your suggestions!
My apologies! I had introduced an extra “font:” into the code. Makes a difference when you take that out!!
I’m still happy to have made your acquaintance and like your work!
If you’ve of a mind, follow me on Twitter @ewkrause.
Best wishes,
Elaine in Houston