Help Customizing Title

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  jostankos · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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  I am trying to customize the way my title looks — i want the words “Black Belt” to be in Black and a font that suggests a martial arts Black Belt and I want to put the word “down” in another font/color… how can I do that?

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  justpi · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 11:32 pm

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  I would suggest replacing the actual title with a header image.

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  azscvgs · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 11:48 pm

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  I thought justpi was right. But it looks like Watson does not support a header image. And it’s a premium theme. You might ask The Theme Foundry if they can suggest a different theme instead of Watson, one with a header. Or you might be able to change fonts and font colors with the Custom Design Upgrade from WordPress, but that’s not free and you have to know what you’re doing.

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  azscvgs · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 11:52 pm

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  Or maybe you have the upgrade, then you want to look at: Custom Fonts/

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  azscvgs · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 11:52 pm

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

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  justpi · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 12:30 am

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  @azscvgs: jostankos does have the upgrade. And when you have the upgrade, you can use CSS editing to insert a header image even if the theme doesn’t support a regular header image.

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  azscvgs · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 1:12 am

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  @justpi: Umm, is a header image better than using the custom fonts that are available?

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  justpi · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 1:45 am

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  The available custom fonts are fine, if you like one of them, but they are limited. If you use an image editing application, you can style a title or a logo anyway you please. Notice that jostankos asked for something unusual: “a font that suggests a martial arts Black Belt”.

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  designsimply · Member · Jan 17, 2014 at 4:53 pm

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  I’d recommend Chunk or Jubilat Semibold for the headings and FF Basic Gothic for body text. :)

  I want to put the word “down” in another font/color

  Here’s one possible solution using CSS:

  First, change the site title to just “Black Belt” and then add this to the Appearance > Customize > CSS editor:

  .branding h1 a:after {
  	content: " Down";
  	font-family: Impact, Haettenschweiler, "Franklin Gothic Bold", Charcoal, "Helvetica Inserat", "Bitstream Vera Sans Bold", "Arial Black", sans-serif;
  }

  Or a header image like justpi suggested is also a good idea if you want more control.