Change font and colours on a theme

fonts and colours are all controlled in the css file in your theme. You can dive into the style.css in your theme editor to check it out.

Unfortunately, I am what you consider an amateur (well, a beginner really…). I wouldn’t know how to change the css file in my theme. Do you know of any good guides which can help? I’m scared to change something which i wont’ be able to change back afterwards.

Or even any good lessons or courses so that I don’t have to ask afterwards?

Really appreciate the help, thank you

well, you can always reinstall the theme if you break it. And if you break it real bad and can’t even get into wordpress, its still easy to fix.

But css is pretty easy to manipulate

https://www.w3schools.com/css/ is a great reference site

to change the font, you look for font in the css. font-family is the type of font used, font-size is size, just the word color is the color of the font.
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp

really, don’t be afraid to mess with the css, its how we all start modifiying themes. Like I said, if something goes wrong, we can fix it.

Also, after editing and saving the css, when looking at your site, you may have to press ctrl+f5 on your keyboard toclear your browser cache and reload the page to see your changes.

Also, a great tool, if you use firefox browser, is firebug. It lets you point at parts of your site to see what css corresponds

Thanks so much for the great tips. I’ll get stuck in now and start learning something ??

Hiya, I did what you said and looked up the guides. I successfully changed the theme and the font, but I’m having problem with the size of the tabs and the titles. I’m not sure where to look on the css style sheet.

Thanks again!!

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