Blog Post font far too light to read

  • I’ve read some other threads on this issue and tried some of the suggestions, to no avail! Honestly, I’m pretty smart but new to this and the CSS code is overwhelming! I downloaded a Child Theme Pluggin but can’t seem to figure out what to do in it. I found the post font color and want to change it but can’t seem to manage within the Child Theme editor. This seems like a pretty common problem. Hint, hint. Some themes give you the choice of font styles and colors right in the editor… I don’t want to change themes again! Please help ??

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  • Hi ddfleming. If you’re only interested in changing the display styles on your site then you don’t need a child theme. You could use a plugin like Simple CSS or Simple Custom CSS. If you think you may want to make mare advanced changes then you probably should use a child theme. In that case, the first suggestion I would offer is to remove the child theme plugin; you don’t need it. You can download a preconfigured child theme from within Hueman:
    1. In Theme Options click the Help tab in the upper righthand corner.
    2. One of the options in the list is “Download the sample child theme”. This downloads the theme zip file to your local computer.
    3. Install the new theme in your Admin panel by selecting Add New > Upload Theme > Choose File, then select the zip file you downloaded.
    4. Activate the child theme.
    You’ll now have a child theme with a style.css file and functions.php file to which you can add customizations.
    Note: since each theme identifies sidebars and menus using unique IDs you may need to reset your sidebars and menus.

    If you’re new to CSS here is a reference that lists several web sites that have everything from beginning to advanced techniques and tutorials on CSS:
    https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/css-mega-guide/ .
    It would be helpful if you had a basic background in what CSS is and how it works so you’ll be able to better understand the recommendations you receive on the forum.

    The full blog post’s font color is inherit from the body. And the excerpt is control by the .entry.excerpt class. So the following codes will work:

    body {
    color: #212121;
}

.entry.excerpt {
    color: #212121;
}

    You can use https://www.colorpicker.com/ to pick out the colors you want.

    The default text font color is #666 (light black) for the theme is very unhealthy for people’s eyes. Please set it as regular black or dark black as #666 so it will be less hassle for people to edit it after activate the theme. Everything in #666 should switch to #000.

    Please consider this change to next theme update. Thanks.

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