Title: CSS Font Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CSS Font Problem

 *  [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/)
 * Hi, maybe you can help me figure out a mystery.
    I am trying to get all of my
   fonts on my site to be Tahoma but for some reason, it keeps turning into verdana
   or aral. I can’t see why it would not work. any ideas?

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 *  [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60324)
 * with your fav text editor, edit the style sheet in your main wp dir. wp-layout.
   css see the wiki docs for help.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60325)
 * In your css, you still have trebuchet and verdana set.
    body { margin-top:0px;
   margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family : “Trebuchet MS”, Tahoma, Helvetica,
   sans-serif; Check your a tag too. It wouldn’t hurt to drop a font-family or similar
   into each id (#) and class (.)
 *  Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60326)
 * I use the style switcher and I am editing in topstyle.
 *  Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60327)
 * You can see it here:
    [http://www.tekwh0re.net/wp/wp-style/wp-default/style.css](http://www.tekwh0re.net/wp/wp-style/wp-default/style.css)
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60328)
 * Sorry – my earlier reply was to your mt install which is linked from your profile.
   
   Your font-families are giving a choice, and for some reason, it’s ignoring Tahoma,
   and hopping to Verdana. You could try just having Tahoma in there …. or selecting
   fonts other than those you have. font: 11px Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
   sans-serif; CSS ‘font-family’ guides the system basically saying “Here’s what
   I want, if the system hasn’t got the first font, try the second, if not that 
   the third etc” If the CSS were mine, I’d drop everything *but* Tahoma just to
   see what happens.
 *  Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60329)
 * No, that didn’t work. =(
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60330)
 * If you followed my suggestion, clear out your temp files and try again.
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60333)
 * I do not know if this will help but here is what I would do. You say you want
   one font throughout. Well I would remove the whole lot except the fonts styled
   in the body selector. Then I would strip that back to a minimum to test. I might
   increase the size by a big bit just to check we have control of the beast. In
   particular I would check the syntax in the finest detail. Do capital letters 
   make a difference? Have I got my quotes in? Is sans-serif really with a hyphen?
   Well I do not know. But that is where I would look. Good luck.
 *  Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60334)
 * Thanks. =(
 *  Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60335)
 * No, its the same. I am looking at the slope of the “M” .
    You can look here: 
   [http://www.tekwh0re.net/wp](http://www.tekwh0re.net/wp)
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60336)
 * Well, I am not one for fine detail but it looks like Tahoma on my end. Try a 
   test by replacing Verdana with something like wing-dings (just kidding, but you
   get my drift) so there is more contrast between the two.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60344)
 * That anon was me. Looks like were making progress.
 *  [oisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oisin/)
 * (@oisin)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-font-problem/#post-60373)
 * It’s definitely Tahoma on my screen, not Verdana.
    Perhaps there’s some kind 
   of problem with your browser’s font handling, or maybe with your Tahoma itself?
   Or something? Nice site, btw (especially now that it says WP at the bottom, not
   MT) 😉

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