text font, size, and color for web pages

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  66mustangconvertible · Member · Mar 31, 2015 at 9:31 pm

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  wordpress,

  Is there only 1 text, size, and color available when editing the text on static web pages? How do you get a different font vs. the default for example? Or is a premium or business account needed to be able to use different fonts, text sizes, and more than just black color for text on a web page?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 7:25 pm

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  To use Custom Fonts, and adjust sizes, fonts and such globally in your site, The WordPress.com Premium Plan upgrade would be required.

  You can change fonts in pages or posts by using HTML, however you have to keep in mind that the browsers will pull fonts from the visitor’s computer, and if it does not find the font, then it will substitute its standard serif or sans-serif font. Here is a web page that outlines the fonts that are installed on basically all computer systems by default. What you will see on that page is several fonts listed in a row, which is typically called a font stack. The browser will use the first, if it doesn’t find that one it will use the next and so on.

  To change the font for a single work, or short phrase, you would wrap it in a span tag like this with the font-family declared in a style statement. This will need to be done in the Text tab in the editor.
  <span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">a short phrase or word</span>
  To change an entire paragraph, you would wrap the paragraph in “p” tags such as this.
  <p style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">All the paragraph text here.</p>