Changing Fonts for text in Coraline

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    robark · Member ·

    I want to change the font for the text that appears in the body of the posts. The font does not carry over from Word and I find no way to change it in the Dashboard settings.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    You will have to do it manually via HTML on a post by post basis.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/

    Alternately you can get a typekit account and use it to change font family globally. There is no support page about it, and not even an official announcement, but you can use it here.

    WordPress intentionally strips all coding out of anything pasted from MS Word since MS Word is NOT a web application. It is a print media application and it brings in all sorts of garbage that destroys blogs.

    Microsoft Word

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    One other option, if you have some knowledge of CSS is to buy the CSS upgrade and change the fonts permanently.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/

    Add Custom CSS

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    hallluke · Member ·

    You cannot use all fonts on the web, it depends on what individual visitors have installed on their systems. You can use the HTML editor and inline CSS (does not require the upgrade) to change all of your formatting. Simply enclose your entire post in a div with the font set to that which you require. You can set fall-back options just in case a visitor doesn’t have the primary font you specify installed.

    <div style="font-family:some-exotic-font,arial,courier,serif;">
...
</div>

    You could also buy the CSS upgrade then set one declaration to do all the hard work for you. I can’t get your blog to load right now so I can’t tell you exactly but it will probably be something very similar to the code above, most likely:

    .post {font-family:arial,courier,serif;}

    The other option is to use TypeKit. If they have the font you want to use then go right ahead and set it up. They give you a great choice of fonts and they are downloaded by the browser so every visitor can see the site exactly as you want (unless they’re not using CSS or using a really, really old browser which is unlikely but not impossible!)

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    robark · Member ·

    Thanks for the responses. I will try to make TypeKit work for me.

    Bob B

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    robark · Member ·

    Used Typekit to change the font but now the size is much too small. How can I change the size?

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    hallluke · Member ·

    You’d need to use one of the methods I described above but this time set the font-sizeinstead. You can use a percent amount to scale it up to something a bit easier to read.

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