Blog text – colour and font not as expected

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  earthgripper · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 5:09 pm

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  I’m not sure if this is related to the issue you had earlier in regard to blogs not displaying correctly but the colours of my text are not the same as those chosen when doing the customization.
  I have also used typekit for the first time and the font isn’t as expected either.
  Is there anything I can do?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 5:48 pm

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  I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  earthgripper · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 5:50 pm

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  Many thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 5:51 pm

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  There was an issue which we thought had been resolved. See here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-design-issues?replies=5

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  earthgripper · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 5:55 pm

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  Yes I’d already read that and amended my CSS accordingly but to no avail.
  Many thanks for your time.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 5:58 pm

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  Thanks for confirming you tried the fix. Please be patient while waiting for Staff help.

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  jackiedana · Member · Sep 16, 2013 at 8:43 pm

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  The colors in the Customizer are set to automatically adjust for contrast. If you try to choose a link color that is too similar to the background color, the color picker will change the color to make sure you have sufficient contrast:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-colors/

  To override that feature, you will need to use custom CSS. For assistance with your CSS, you can post in the CSS Customization forums: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  We have custom fonts within WordPress. If you decide to use Typekit, then you are actually using fonts we allow, but have no direct control over. We just use whatever settings you’ve set up at Typekit on your blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/#connect-a-typekit-account

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  earthgripper · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 11:15 am

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  Thank you for your help. I understand about the contrasting colours so will amend them through CSS instead. However, I still have a problem with the colour of the site title and description being controlled though this within the site header.

  #site-title a, #site-description {
  color: #111 !important;
  }

  Is this something I can amend?

  In regard to typekit, I selected the CSS h1, h2, h3 etc within typekit for the typekit font but nothing happened (hence my original query). However, now I’ve added a class or id as well they have changed – is this correct? I can’t just use h2 and expect all my h2 headings to change to typekit font??

  Many thanks for your help. It is really appreciated.

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  jackiedana · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 4:36 pm

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  For the first question, when the !important declaration is used, this is telling the stylesheet to override any subsequent modification of the stylesheet.

  For the second question, if a more specific style has been declared, such as h1.entry-title, then that will override anything declared as just h1.

  You may wish to post over in the CSS customization forums for suggestions on how to modify certain things and possibly some workarounds: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

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  earthgripper · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:02 pm

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  Thanks ever so much for your help and patience.
  I will ask how the !important declaration got there and if I can remove it over at the CSS forum.