font default
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Fonts seem to be different on different posts. Need to standardize font style and size and set so there is some common default position?
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Hi there:
The default font and font sizes are set within your theme settings under the Appearance menu.
However, in the post editor, you can specify a specific font size in the Typography menu that would override the theme settings. Screenshot: https://d.pr/i/Y4AaKX
Check your posts and if you see anything in the typography settings that is not “Default” under “Font Size”, that means it’s using a different font than your theme default. You can select all the text on a post and change the “Font Size” to “Default” to fix it, then click “update” to save those changes.
I hope that helps! Let us know if you have any questions or if you’re still having trouble.
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Thanks csonnek but I can’t find either the appearance menu nor the typography menu even though I know I have previously accessed the last one. But the “theme” doesn’t seem to present an “appearance” menu. If you could describe how to get to these menus that would be good, and is there, or what is, the standard default position for it all? I don’t know how I got into this predicament :)
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The settings referred to are in the Paragraph block itself: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/paragraph-block/#typography
That will let you change settings per block without affecting the whole site.
To control fonts for the whole site, please see https://wordpress.com/support/custom-fonts/
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Sorry, still having trouble with this – don’t know the entry points from/to the areas you are quoting – don’t know if there is a difference between classic editor which I use and the block editor and whether that has anything to do with it. Don’t know if what you are saying is done through the “edit” function or just from ???
Apart from the last couple of posts, the previous few all have different font effects. I don’t know what the “normal” setting is, whether most of the other posts are actually ON that or whether they have all changed from when I started the blog.
I know I adjusted line spacings at some stage recently but can’t seem to find any way of returning to that spot (typography?). Line height and font size involved. Sorry to be a pain, also it seems to be saying that what you have to do to fix it depends on the theme you are using. Also that it might take several minutes to take effect? Once again, my apologies. -
Hi there,
Let’s take one step at a time. First of all, what’s the post you’re working on and what exactly you need to adjust?
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Hi and thanks. My recent posts 1613, 1612, 1443d and 1428d are different to one another in font or font size. The posts before that appear to be all the same as post 1428d is, which looks rather small, but may be correct, but I don’t know what the default (what is considered as “normal”) is supposed to be. The line spacing may also be different.
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This is simply happening because you have selected different font sizes for each post.
To change that, you need to open the posts in the editor, select the Paragraph block and change the font size from the toolbar to the right.
For more information on how the Paragraph block works, you can read this document:
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No one has mentioned “global styles” which is quoted as being the necessary thing for this particular “theme”. When I follow the above instructions the text always defaults to very small size when a new paragraph (when “enter” is hit). Would this not indicate that the basic default is set wrongly” But I can’t find the “global styles” button as indicated under the support nominated “Custom Fonts” as being the “A” button – “Located between the Document Settings button and the green Jetpack button”.
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Hi there,
Which site is this for? I see you have a few on your account. We’re still talking about crossroman.wordpress.com yes?
Please how do I find the “typography menu”?
To clarify, you are using an older theme that we offer on crossroman.wordpress.com (called “Hemingway Rewritten”) and this theme was released before we had a block editor. Because of this, the Hemingway theme does not use the Global Styles option our newer themes use. Instead it has a different place to switch fonts, which you can find here: https://wordpress.com/customize/crossroman.wordpress.com
Once you are on that page, look at the left for the tab that says “Fonts” and click on it to see the font settings for crossroman.wordpress.com.
Where do I find the “Paragraph block”?
The paragraph block is found within the page editor interface. This is what you see anytime you create an new page or blog post (or edit an existing one) and you will notice that in this view, the text on the paragraph block is rather small compared to the font setting you have set in the above step.
However, if you preview the page, you will see that your font setting is in fact applied. Even though the editor shows the text as small, on the site itself it is large. You can see this by watching the video at this link: https://d.pr/v/xmPFKb
My recommendation is to not worry about how small it seems the text in “in the editor” but instead just preview your page periodically as you are creating it, so you can confirm how it looks on your live site with the larger font setting.
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
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Thanks Jerry. The other accounts I have no knowledge of. The problem has fairly well sorted itself as I continued to dig into it and read the advice offered, although the Hemingway theme seemed to be listed on the “global style” themes when I looked at them. There was still something else that did not seem to add up [which may have been that I had to add the paragraphs AFTER writing the whole thing, otherwise it would “go small”, but as you said, not to worry about that. although it seems better to actually DO that so small print does not appear, anyway.]
Anyway it seems that ongoingly now it is satisfactory even if I am not quite across it all, as long as I keep away from the “custom” button. Thanks again. :)
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