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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Can't change body size

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  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 11 months ago by nazz.
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  • January 23, 2019 at 6:56 pm #440317
    nazz
    Participant

    I am running the old News Theme. It works OK for my purposes. Waiting for a new theme, I guess.

    I did the SSL changeover and noticed that some of my type looks smaller (and a bit cleaner). The body text was too small before but is way too small now.

    I went to body in the CSS and increased the px size, but nothing happens. (I used the inspector thing on the body type display and it said to go there as well.)

    Also, I noticed some headlines are breaking (as in they became larger) after this.

    I also switched to Genesis 2.8.0 about this time, but am still on WP 4.9.9.

    Dunno why the SSL switch would do this, if it did, or why the body doesn't control the text.

    Any ideas?

    https://psychedelicsight.com/
    January 24, 2019 at 8:08 am #449147
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    The SSL switch wouldn't have done this by itself. From what I can tell, your fonts aren't loading.

    The text size for your body is controlled in your style sheet by this CSS:

    body, h1, h2, h2 a, h2 a:visited, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, select, textarea {
        color: #333;
        font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif;
        font-size: 13px;
        font-weight: normal;
        line-height: 22px;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        text-decoration: none;
    }

    If you look at this code, your site is supposed to be using Droid Sans, but when I look to see the fonts in your browser, it is using Helvetica instead. Helvetica is the fallback sans-serif font that the browser chose because Droid Sans is not loading.

    I traced the problem to these lines in style.css:

    @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans);
    @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald);

    To fix this, either change the http to https or remove the http altogether like this:

    @import url(//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans);
    @import url(//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald);

    Regards,

    Victor
    https://victorfont.com/
    Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
    Have you requested your free website audit yet?

    January 24, 2019 at 3:42 pm #453481
    nazz
    Participant

    Thanks, Victor, that did the trick. I changed the font URL to https and am back in business.

    Resolved.

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