BIGGER FONTS FOR MORE LEGIBLE BLOG ENTRIES

When I wrote a journal entry on the last page of my spiral notebook journal, I realized that I’d have to drive 35 miles to buy a new notebook before I could write in my journal again. So I decided to resurrect my old CYBERDUMP  and  wound up spending most of this morning trying to figure out how to make this blog-as-online-journal more functional (i.e. more legible to my aging eyes) by increasing the font size of my entries. It didn’t seem to be an option, so I explored every possibility WordPress offered by clicking on  APPEARANCE, USERS, TOOLS, SETTINGS to see if there was anything I could do. I discovered I could pay $30 a year for a special font that was bigger, bolder, and easier for my poor old near-sighted eyes to read.  At his point I can’t even remember how I did it, but maybe I should try so I can do it again if I decide I want to enhance another of my blogs.. I think I chose something under “Settings” but I can’t remember….

So here’s what I did: I clicked on APPEARANCE, chose THEMES, chose CUSTOM DESIGN, chose CUSTOM FONTS, chose BODY TEXT THEME FONT, and chose a bold, legible font called Le Monde Journal.

Now I’m going to try one more experiment to see what happens if I try to change Le Monde Journal (which I’ve already paid $30 a year for) to something else…. I clicked on APPEARANCE, chose THEMES, chose CUSTOM DESIGN, chose CHANGE FONTS, chose BODY TEXT, and changed from Le Monde Journal to FacitWeb.

So now I will be able to read my journal posts in big, bold FacitWeb without having to squint or lean in so close to my computer screen  that my nose almost touches it. Victory, or another afternoon shot to hell?

This is what I did to my CYBERDUMP blog. But now I’m wondering whether I could have achieved almost the same outcome by merely making the text of each of my posts BOLD like this?

I guess not…. Here’s a link for comparison: CYBERDUMP

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