Hi, It’s seems that no easy way to change the forum global font size. Could discourse team make a new feature to change the global font sizes? The global font size is too small now. Have a nice day, Frank

It looks like you may be on the Basic plan? If so, I’m afraid theme customisations are not available and you would need to upgrade to the Standard plan or higher to access that feature. I’ve moved your posts from Change font sizes in your themes over to here to keep the discussion grouped together. :slight_smile: It also seems you’ve asked this question/requested this previously. To change font size for everyone by default you can use the default text size admin setting, which has the added bonus of not needing access to theme customisations. :+1: [image]How to change the global font size? Hi, How to change the global font size? Thank you, Frank [image]How to change the global font size? You can however, choose a predefined size in the admin settings (Admin > settings > user preference > default text size(near the bottom): [image]

as a user you can change your default font size setting in your profile - preferences - interface: [IMG_3253]

But I plan to setup a community with thousands of old people above 50 years old. It’s impossible to teach everyone setting their interface preferences to largest font sizes. It will be much better if there’s a easy way to set whole forum to largest font sizes

try this: in common css: body { font-size: 20px; } you can set the 20px to whatever size you feel is right. i think default here is about 15px. i fine control our site’s base font size this way in all themes.

Hi Lilly, Where can I put the css? Thank you, Frank

settings-customize-themes then in whatever theme you want to change the default font for, you need to edit CSS and put that code in the common css section.

if you have never done this sort of thing, i would recommend familarize yourself with the basics of working with themes. :slightly_smiling_face: [image] Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes Site Management This is a crash course in Discourse theme basics. The target audience is everyone who is not familiar with Discourse themes. If you’ve already used Discourse theme / theme components, this guide is probably not something you need to read. What are themes and theme components? A theme or theme component is a set of files packaged together designed to either modify Discourse visually or to add new features. Let’s start with themes. Themes In general, themes are not supposed to be compatible …

Hi, Where can I put the css if I want to change the entire forum global font sizes? Thank you, Frank

@Frankz i answered your other topic on this [image] How can I change the global font size? Support settings-customize-themes then in whatever theme you want to change the default font for, you need to edit CSS and put that code in the common css section.

[image] In the picture above, there is an icon Themes in front of Colours, but in my webpage, there is no Themes icon. I am using the basic trial plan $25 per month.

please read my reply about working with themes in your other post also it is right here: [IMG_3254]

How can I change the global font size?

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Lilly (Lillian ) May 4, 2023, 7:04am 17

grr i thought this setting existed somewhere and went looking for it and didn’t find it because i was searching font and not text

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