Tonal customizer differs between wp.com and self-hosting

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    pietromeroni · Member ·

    Hello everyone,
    I’m building my new website using the Tonal theme. I started with a free hosting on wp.com and everything is fine.
    This is the site on WP.COM
    Then I thought about moving to self-hosting (aruba.it): nutshellhorizon.com
    The customizer for the Tonal theme is totally different there.
    My main issues are:
    1. I have lost the FONTS option. Easily resolved installing googlefonts, but even with the same name, the fonts look decidely different. See for yourself.
    2. I have lost the PALETTE option in “Colors and backgrounds”. All I have now is “Header text” and “Background color”. Needless to say I wanted to turn the frame color to black and now I can’t (well, not without intervening on the code).

    These may look like minimal problems but are really affecting the design of the site and I feel I made the wrong move, moving to self-hosting (which I did mainly to get rid of the “wordpress.com” url).

    Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The Customizer on WordPress.com has some built in features that are not on the Customizer in self-hosted sites.

    1. I have lost the FONTS option. Easily resolved installing googlefonts, but even with the same name, the fonts look decidely different. See for yourself.

    What you will have to do to use Typekit fonts on your self-hosted is to get an account at Typekit and then you can install a plugin to allow you to use those fonts, a plugin such as this one.

    2. I have lost the PALETTE option in “Colors and backgrounds”. All I have now is “Header text” and “Background color”. Needless to say I wanted to turn the frame color to black and now I can’t (well, not without intervening on the code).

    The Custom Colors section of the Customizer is at this time. You will need to make color adjustments using CSS.

    If you have not yet done so, I would suggest creating a child theme so that any customizations you make will not be overwritten by a future theme update. Alternately you can use the Edit CSS function in the Jetpack plugin, or use one of the other Custom CSS plugins that will keep CSS changes from being overwritten.

    Child Themes
    Child Theme creation plugins
    Jetpack plugin
    Custom CSS plugins

    For general questions on self-hosted WordPress.org installations, visit http://wordpress.org/support/.

    The differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

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