My Sidekick font changed size & turned into italics on its own. What can I do?

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  theresaschwartzman · Member · Aug 13, 2013 at 1:29 am

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  Since I posted my blog using the Sidekick theme, something terrible has happened to Sidekick. All the text in the body is much larger than it was, and it’s also in italics, which I hate. When I try to fix it within the post menu, the format menu shows that it is NOT in italics, but it’s still showing up in italics. When I try to customize the font, it only gives me a few font options, I can’t control the size or italics.

  Also I don’t particularly look forward to going through each single post & switching the size and de-italicizing. That is not how it looked when I created the blog, I don’t understand why it morphed into a different font size without my say-so. Please advise. It looks incredibly ugly to me now.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Aug 13, 2013 at 6:07 pm

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  Hi there, Sidekick doesn’t use italics and large text for regular body copy, as you can see here in the demo:

  http://sidekickdemo.wordpress.com/

  Italics and larger blue-coloured text is used for text that has the “blockquote” formatting applied to it.

  For some reason, most of your text is formatted as blockquotes, and also has bold (“strong”) formatting applied.

  I’ve removed the blockquote and bold formatting on your most recent post and the italics and other special formatting have been removed, as you can see here:

  LAX, December 25, 6:30am

  Here’s what the blockquote formatting looks like in Text view:

  http://cl.ly/image/3r0W2w3p0n1r

  And here’s what the blockquote formatting button looks like in the toolbar:

  http://cl.ly/image/0W3r1W3b0N0V

  To remove the blockquote formatting, just highlight the blockquoted text in your editor and click on the blockquote formatting button.

  Instead of manually removing all the blockquote formatting, it would be quicker if you add this to your CSS to make blockquoted text look like regular text:

  Head under Appearance > Custom Design. Click the CSS tab and add this completely below the existing green comments:

  .entry-content blockquote {
       color: #262626;
       font-size: inherit;
       font-style: normal;
       line-height: 1.5;
       margin: 0;
       font-weight: normal;
  }

  Click Save when you’re done.