Would like to make main fonts size larger than settings allow

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    naropatlc · Member ·

    I am using the Reddle theme and would like my font to be bigger than 3 – which is the biggest that the settings allow. Is there a way to do this?

    Thanks!

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    designsimply · Member ·

    I checked your font settings at Appearance > Customize > Fonts and I noticed that you have the body font setting to “-3” instead of “3.” You might try changing that first just in case it helps enough. Even with that change, I agree the fonts still look small, so I looked closely at your latest post as an example:
    http://naropatlc.com/2014/12/11/community-offering-naropa-counseling-center-groups-spring-2015/

    In that post, all of your content is set to use the “Heading 5” style which is set to 10px in the theme—which is pretty small. There are a few different ways you can change that. One would be to edit the content in all of your posts to change the content from the “Heading 5” style back to the “Paragraph” style using row 2 option1 in the Visual editor:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

    If you updated the text and changed the font size to “3” instead of “-3,” then the fonts would look bigger.

    If you don’t want to have to re-edit every post where you have previously sett all of the content to use “Heading 5,” then you can try to override the font size using custom CSS. The down side to this solution is that it may not catch all of the text (it will depend on how consistent you were with selecting “Heading 5” when creating the posts. Another down side is that you are overriding the built in size for h5 tags. Because h5 tags are seldom used otherwise, it would probably be okay to modify them. Here is an example you could add to your Appearance > Customize > CSS editor to try it out:

    .entry-content h5 {
	font-size: 14px;
}

    Make sure to test a lot of posts if you decide to make a change.

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    naropatlc · Member ·

    Thank you so much! This is very helpful.

    One more question — if I’d like to change the main background (not the left and right side borders – currently purple) from white to an off-white (I can find the color code for this, maybe something like #e4e1dc, is there a CSS code to do so?

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    For the background color on the header/content area (currently white) add the following CSS and then adjust the color code as desired. 

    #page {
    background: #ffffff;
}
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    lindsaybev · Member ·

    How would I change the small font size of my main menu without changing the font size of the main text? The changes allowed in the customizing section of fonts does not allow any differentiation and the menu type is ridiculously small when I have the regualr page test at a normal size.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    @lindsaybev, I just answered you in the other thread you started at: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-different-menu-font-from-body-text-font?replies=2

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