Help changing the site font?
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I really need help with this. This new font that got implemented yesterday is absolutely dreadful. It shifts everything into weird areas and is so big that it really messes with my eyes and feels like everything is huge and right up in my face, my eyes actually hurt and strain just to view the site now... Not only that, but all of my pet images are now fuzzy and weird and well, it's ticking me off in general... This feels more like a downgrade rather than a proper update.... >/
Using Ctrl+0 doesn't help, in fact half the time I am having to use ctrl + scrollwheel to change everything to be smaller but that doesn't fix the fuzzy pet image issue...
I'm using this for general purposes body, html { font-family: Verdana!important; font-size: 55%;}
if there's any specific buttons or other elements you're having issues with, lemme know and I can figure out something for them
I'm not experiencing blurry pet images, but you could try changing the font back to Verdana using custom CSS.
Go to this page and enter this code in the box.
body, html {font-family: Verdana !important;}There could still be some sizing issues, but it might help some.
so, what i noticed was that changing the overall site font messes up sizes on certain parts of the site, so i had to go back in and adjust those as well, so now this is what i'm using and it's working nicely for me. feel free to fiddle with the sizes if you prefer them bigger or smaller:
body, html, .sidebar-event, div#sidebar-inner-dash {font-size:12px!important}
.ui.grid>div, .column {font-size:13px!important}
the first line adjusts most text on the site, while the second line changes the font size for forum posts and the news page.
Omg thank you both of you! My eyes are still feeling a bit funny from the previous font, but I think it's all better now that that code has been implemented. It seems my pet images are no longer fuzzy so it must have been the new font that was causing some kind of conflict with them. I thought I was going to go insane if I had to deal with that new font much longer. Thanks again so so so much. <3
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
This new font is utterly terrible.
Thanks for mentioning this, I tried it but I don't see any difference from the previously given code though. I appreciate it all the same. =3
I completely agree, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Oh wow. I thought it was my computer, maybe the kids pushed a button or something but it was only this site. I hope I get use to it in a few days.
it affects more parts of the site because i added bits for more specific divs/classes (the sidebar, .ui.grid>div, and .column), because just setting the size for body and html was messing up sizes elsewhere.
No problem! I changed mine back asap :p some of the buttons are really small (like the one in bqs) but those are pretty simple fixes
Yeah, it hurts my eyes and it wonks the site in places where I can't tell which numbers are which, etc. I thought I was going nuts because usually there's a bug thread up on recent posts about stuff like this, so thank goodness for this thread.
I couldn't get Laurey's code to work for me, but kbbob's does. Not sure why.
Edit: Frenchi's works, though. That one just reduces the font, whereas kbbob's changes it back to Verdana.
Well if you use the CSS code that kbbob posted on the page Laurey linked, you can change it back to what it was before the change and you won't have to deal with the new font change. =)
Ahh yes exactly! It felt like that new font was being jabbed right into my eyeballs and it was very uncomfortable, I'm not sure how the staff actually thought it was a good implement to make, but alas, at least we have a way to fix it. I didn't try Laurey's code, I too am using the code kbbob posted.
Ahh I see. Perhaps I'll tinker with your code a bit more and see if it works better for me than the one kbbob posted. =)
Edit: I am still having issues. It's still ugly and not working right. Lots of things look perfect but there are a lot of option texts that are tiny as all heck.... I really wish staff never made this change. It wasn't necessary and its giving me a headache with how horrible this problem is. I really don't want to abandon site for something as silly as a font issue, but it is so painfully annoying that I may be forced into another long hiatus due to this....
yeah some changes were made earlier that made the code I posted earlier not work well, so I stole 's code and made it verdana
body, html, .sidebar-event, div#sidebar-inner-dash {font-family: verdana; font-size:12px!important;}
.ui.grid>div, .column {font-family: verdana; font-size:13px!important;}
and am using that now
yeah I was noticing how things that weren't small before I went to work were now all wonky.. I wish they'd stop messing with it...
But anywho, I can't express to you my thanks, I am so very grateful for the help, I'm piss poor at coding and would never have figured it out myself. It looks like everything is perfect and pretty and correct again, my sanity is saved! =3
no problem =) hopefully it doesn't change again, but if it does, I'm sure someone will come up with some code to fix it again =)
Yeah, I'm crossing my fingers it doesn't. =)
Just a note but subeta has no font now. It's set to whatever your system's default font is so you may want to try changing your system's default font to something else in your browser and see if that helps if css coding individually doesn't automatically help.
Here's the link where Keith posted about the system font change.
Well, I think the CSS is working great so far. I'd really hate to change the font for my entire system, just to fix one website and thusly then messing up every other thing but the single thing that became messed up in the first place.
