Colour Text/ Changing Font

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  roodiy · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 am

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  How do I change the colour of my text instead of the mundane black all the time?
  Also…is it possible to change the font in which I’m typing?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 2:01 am

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  1. In the visual editor, you highlight the text then click the Color button.

  In the html editor, you use this code:
  <div style="color:#HEX_HERE">YOUR_TEXT_HERE</div>
  For hex numbers see here:
  http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/30/ultimate-html-color-hex-code-list/
  http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html
  http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

  2. In the html editor:
  <div style="font-family:DEFINE;">YOUR_TEXT_HERE</div>
  Where I’ve put “DEFINE”, you specify the font (e.g. “georgia”). You must restrict yourself to the fonts commonly used in the web.

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  “div” above refers to a section or a complete post. If you want those changes for a word or a phrase within a paragraph, use “span” instead.

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  roodiy · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 6:50 am

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  ok,…one more thing, which one’s the colour button?

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  roodiy · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 7:38 am

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  oh and whats a visual editor?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 9:53 am

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  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/

  As for your second question, see the tabs “Visual” and “HTML” in the screenshot in that FAQ.

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  shimworld · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 10:29 am

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  @ panaghiotisadam

  What about fonts that appear in USER COMMENTS? I would like to change the fonts that are presently used in The Journalist Theme v1.9 to the font used in “My Comments” … I don’t know what the font type is but it’s more eye pleasing than the default used in The Journalist.

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  theimpossibleprincess · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 11:25 am

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  To change the look of your user comments you will need the CSS upgrade as this is defined in the stylesheet.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 16, 2008 at 11:39 am

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  @shimworld: The font used in “My Comments” is “Lucida Grande” or “Lucida Sans Unicode”. But I don’t understand your question: that’s the font used in the Journalist theme, too.

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  shimworld · Member · Dec 17, 2008 at 6:42 am

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  Funny, I’m not seeing the same. I’ve tried to view the pages on FF 3.04 and IE 7 and still the font type used in My Comments is different from that I see in my blog. My CSS script as follows, some carried over from MistyLook, I wonder if the font section changes things. I have also tried removing ‘font-family:Verdana!important;’ but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

  ‘#container h1 a {
  display:block;
  text-align:left;
  background:url(‘http://shimworld.com/images/shimworld_journalist.jpg’) top left no-repeat;
  height:147px;
  width:950px;
  text-indent:-9000px;
  }

  .entry .snap-preview,.entry .snap_preview span,.entry .snap_preview p {
  font-size:9pt!important;
  font-family:Verdana!important;
  }

  #navigation ul li.search {
  display:none;
  font-size:.9em;
  right:0;
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  }

  #navigation ul li.search input#searchsubmit {
  display:none;
  border:#999 1px solid;
  font-size:.9em;
  background:#ddd;
  color:#265e15;
  margin:0 0 0 2px;
  padding:2px;
  }

  #content .entry a:link,#content .entry a:visited {
  border-bottom:#333333 1px dotted;
  }

  #footer p {
  width:100%;
  text-align:center;
  }

  blockquote {
  position:relative;
  background:#F5F4F4;
  border-left:1px dotted #2c455b;
  margin:8px 30px;
  padding:8px;
  }’