# How to set global font size in Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-global-font-size-in-discourse/39807>\
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**Created:** [2016 年 2 月 18 日午後 4:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-global-font-size-in-discourse/39807 "2016-02-18T16:04:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [2016 年 2 月 18 日午後 4:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-global-font-size-in-discourse/39807/1 "2016-02-18T16:04:39Z")

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I changed the font of my forum to proxima nova. But now the default font size is very small. If I change by this way -

```
body {
    font-size: 16px;
}

```

The font size gets increased automatically for example - topic title font size sets to 23px and so on. Whats the problem?

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