Text is far too light – how to darken ?

[omg123Member]

Hello,
i have put a few websites online - all using wordpress genesis - and on all of them the text is far too light -
unreadable .

i have researched various causes on the net to see if any of these might be the problem, and cant find the cause.
i know its not my monitor because i changed the monitor and it these sites using genesis still have very light text - but no other sites.

i would be interested if anyone knows how to darken the text - THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THE SITE - not just on the page shown.

here is one sample site
http://www.groupbuyings.com
the text is just about readable if you change the screen resolution - but then the screen resolution is too big and you cant fit hardly anything on the page.

http://www.groupbuyings.com/

[ChristophMember]

Hi,

to change the color of the font you can edit the style.css.

Around line 129 you find the following code:

body {
    color: #333;
    font-family: Lato,sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: 300;
    line-height: 1.625;
}

To make the font black change it to color: #000;
and/or you can increase the font-weight.

Headlines can be adjusted around line 221 the same way as above.

h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6 {
	color: #333;
	font-family: Lato, sans-serif;
	font-weight: 400;
	line-height: 1.2;
	margin: 0 0 10px;
}

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[omg123Member]

Thank you very much for that Christoph,
i will follow your instructions and see if that works,
but it was bugging me that that was the default color/shade, that it was so light,

but thank you again Christoph, that was very detailed and helpfull.

[omg123Member]

Thanks Christoph - it worked - im very happy with that,

i changed the
color: #333;
to
color: #000;

but it was changing the font weight from 300 to 400 that made the difference - a big change for the better - thanks.

[ChristophMember]

Hi,

you are welcome.
I´m glad I was able to help.

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