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  franimelda · Member · Feb 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm

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  I have established a free account with a blog and other pages. The font size is too large but I can’t seem to shrink it. I have a wordpress blog and the font is perfect, but on this account, it is too large. How do I fix it, or is that possible with the free account.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2017 at 8:36 pm

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  This site http://blackforestmusings.wordpress.com/ is wearing a very old retired theme and themes are retired when they no longer support all wordpress.COM features. The recommendation is to switch to a more recent theme.

  See 56 White + Light + Two Columns + Left Sidebar + Responsive Layout WordPress Themes https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/two-columns+responsive-layout+left-sidebar+white+light/

  re: switching themes

  Note that switching themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.

  Use the customizer after switching themes to vary the font size.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2017 at 8:38 pm

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  As I posted above font sizes can be changed in the customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

  These Google fonts can be used free of charge on any theme.
  https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/free-google-fonts/ and you will find them in the customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

  If you are referring only to the text inside of your posts and pages you can make some changes without an annually renewable upgrade.

  For changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the Text ie. HTML editor see http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/formatting-text-pt-5/

  For changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

  To display the second row of icons, first select the toolbar toggle icon at the end of row 1 and click it. https://i0.wp.com/en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kitchensink.png
  Then see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#text-color

  However, if you want to make any font changes to blog titles or widget titles then you need the premium upgrade bundle or business bundle that includes the custom design upgrade in it.

  See here for details on purchasing an annually renewable upgrade http://store.wordpress.com/pricing that contains a custom design upgrade required for CSS editing:
  Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/

  Note 1: Once you have the required upgrade you can use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can create a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need with CSS editing.

  Note 2: You can also post there prior to purchasing an upgrade to get an answer to whether or not what you want to do can be accomplished via CSS editing.