Hi, I am trying to change typography like font-family, font-weight and font sizes with Discourse variables. $base-font-family: var(--font-family) !default; $heading-font-family: var(--heading-font-family) !default; So how I can change heading-font-family variable like $heading-font-family: Arial;…

Maybe have a look at https://meta.discourse.org/t/selectable-font-family-component/117493 ?

Thanks for the reply. Actually there is a default Discourse feature for that. But I want to make a more detailed typography customization. [image] So I’m looking for a way to change the values of variables. So I thought I could easily change the entire typography. from variables.scss // Fonts …

Oh. I thought that seemed old and there was now a better way. Sorry about that.

Thank you for the answer @pfaffman I hope there is some way to override these variables. Otherwise, I will need to change CSS classes.

Thank you for the reply @codinghorror . That way we can only choose certain fonts, right? And I learned that these variables cannot be override. Is it correct?

@bekircem I just tested the wizard on 2.7.0.beta1 and the available fonts are the same from the site settings you posted above (I may be missing something). You probably figured it out by now, but just in case, you can use the Google Fonts or you can replace the CSS variables just like you did on y…

Is that possible the override Discourse variables?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) November 18, 2020, 11:16pm 6

Re-run the setup wizard, font selection is now a step in the setup wizard as of the 2.6 beta release.

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Is that possible the override Discourse variables?

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