Modify left sidebar font

I’m trying to modify this via a child theme’s style.css, not making any headway though.

It looks like the element I need to adjust are .post-item-category and .post-item-title, but the changes are not seen when I make them.

I’m trying to tweak the font size for the AlxPosts widget, and the styling in the original theme seems to be contained in these chunks:

.alx-posts .post-item-title { font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; }

.alx-posts .post-item-category { color: #aaa; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 13px; }

I’m adding these lines into style.css in my child theme:

.alx-posts .post-item-title { font-size: 14px; }

.alx-posts .post-item-category { font-size: 16px; }

I have tried this as well, with no luck:

.post-item-title { font-size: 14px; }

.post-item-category { font-size: 16px; }

Would appreciate advice! Thanks.

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