How do you change overall default font?

Have a look at the stylesheet (style.css) of your theme.

Would this be the right place?

body {
margin: 0;
/* setting border: 0 hoses ie5 win window inner well border */
padding: 0;
font-family: verdana, ‘trebuchet ms’, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

I want to change it to helvetica.

thanks so much.

I’m not a real coder, but that looks like the right place. There is a way to find out: trial-and-error ??

In my days I often had to edit the stylesheet, but switch to another theme and back before the changes were visible.

Not that you might have font settings on other places in the stylesheet too.

that would be the right place! If you don’t know much about font….read up just a bit…

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp

and remember….you can only reliably include fonts that everyone has on their system. That’s why you see 3 fonts listed. verdana is teh preferred font of teh designer, if that is not on the system, trebuchet is used, if both of those are not on the system, it fails to just sans, which is generic, on all systems

here’s what my font looks like:
font-family: "Century gothic", Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;

font names with more than one word need to be in quotes

ohhhhh, I see… thanks so much!