Is there an easy way to globally change the font size for paragraph text? Thanks!

If I understand correctly and you mean it: [css] .cooked { font-size: 1.3em; } Or .topic-body .contents .cooked { font-size: 1.3em; }

Thanks so much for the quick response - I’m new to Discourse and am really impressed with the community. I’m hoping to enlarge all paragraph text on my site because it’s too small to read for those with bad eyesight. Will the fix you sent do that, and if so, where do I add that code? Thanks!

I think this guide should help you. [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 …

I hope so. It seems like something that would be in a settings menu.

Well we keep talking about shipping built in font size theme elements but I am not sure what is taking so long, where are we on this @sam?

A lot of our internals support user selectable theme components now, but there are some finishing touches left @Osama did not have time to get to, @xrav3nz will be picking up on this in a couple of weeks.

People with bad eyesight need to know how to type control - + to enlarge the fonts on every site they visit. And given that they know that, they’ll likely be annoyed when they visit your site because the font will be too big.

Right, agreed, but it can also be a user preference on the specific website as well. Furthermore that would increase all fonts on the website, not just the body text font. You can control it a bit more surgically via theme components that users opt into.

The easiest way to do this is to bump up all text, or specific sections of the UI (posts for example). html { // all text in Discourse font-size: 15px; // default is 14px } .container.posts, .d-editor-container { font-size: 15px; // increase text in posts and the post composer by 1 font size } There’s no general concept to increase only text that’s currently 14px to 15px (you could do it, but it’s a lot of hand-picking individual elements to style). Generally it’s not the best idea to only increase paragraph text because suddenly the paragraph text might be larger than some header text, which kind of messes up the emphasis/hierarchy.

How to change paragraph font size?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 5, 2018, 6:19am 5

There might be a better more general place to adjust font size @awesomerobot?

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How to change paragraph font size?

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