Text font size color confusion?

redcrown@mchsi.com

Can someone help a dinosaur? I'm still sandboxing, close to unviel, now fighting confusion over text and fonts.

In my Theme controls I see selctions for Text Color, Accent Color, Heading Font, Heading Font Weight, and Body Font.

The Heading and Body Font selctions show a drop down list of fonts that look like an alien invasion. I see that they all come from Google, but where are the usual suspects? If you ask the experts what fonts are best for websites you get the old standbys: Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Garamond, Helvetica, etc. NONE of these show up in the Smugmug/Google list. What's that all about?

The Heading Font Weight shows "Normal 400" and no other options. So I cycle the Theme through a few while watching a text block on my About page. They are all iti-bity fonts. How can I make a text block font big enough for old folks like me to read without putting our nose on the screen?

I set my Accent Color to black, but all my links in my menu still come out a muted gray, not black. Is that a bug or a feature?

I see in the New Customization forum a lot of suggestions to abandon text blocks and use HTML blocks instead to add text. Is that the only way to have basic control of font, size, color?

denisegoldberg

redcrown@mchsi.com wrote: »

The Heading and Body Font selctions show a drop down list of fonts that look like an alien invasion. I see that they all come from Google, but where are the usual suspects? If you ask the experts what fonts are best for websites you get the old standbys: Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Garamond, Helvetica, etc. NONE of these show up in the Smugmug/Google list. What's that all about?

The only fonts available for use are Google fonts. There are some not so fancy options but you will need to look for them. I found the easiest way to browse the fonts was to go to http://www.google.com/fonts. Once you decide on your fonts then go back into smug and set the heading and body font.

--- Denise