Why did our home page topic links font shrink?

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A few weeks ago (~May 21st) the fonts for our topic links on our forum home page community.tiller.com shrank pretty significantly. We didn’t make any changes to our theme or CSS.

Is this expected with a recent Discourse update? Is there a way to get them to be a normal slightly bigger size again?

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Hello!

This is most likely a consequence of the new feature in upcoming changes Modernize Foundation theme, can you check if this is enabled?

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hi @Heather_Phillips. yea a few people have noticed this and there is a related topic

the modernize foundation topic is here:

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Ah looks like we have a theme called “Light” enabled? Is there a way to adjust/fix?

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It’s a guess but light is probably foundation + a different colour palette.

So go to the upcoming changes page admin/config/upcoming-changes and disable the Modernize Foundation theme feature.

Can you let me know if that fixes it for you?

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you can find it in admin sidebar here: :slight_smile:

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yes, that fixed it @chapoi also thanks @Lilly for the tip on how to find it. When it does roll out to everyone (or become permanent) will there be a way to customize the size of the font? What was being used there was just too small.

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There wont be a built-in way but you can alwaya customise it regularly with CSS. That being said, Im having a look at this particular change, because I think we can/should use REM instead of EM which would avoid this size.