# How to set global font size in Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-global-font-size-in-discourse/39807>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [18 Febrero, 2016 16:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-global-font-size-in-discourse/39807 "2016-02-18T16:04:39Z")\
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Right, all font sizes cascade from the 14px set on the HTML tag — so you can bump everything up proportionately by doing

```css
html {
  font-size: 16px;
}  

```

or if you just want to increase the font size of a specific section, that still works too — just find a parent container and apply a font size there. For example, posts:

```CSS
.posts-wrapper {
  font-size: 16px;
}

```

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