Title: font colors differ in CSS, help! Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # font colors differ in CSS, help! * [sdubin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdubin/) * (@sdubin) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/) * Hey guys, * My site: [http://www.artiswhydesigns.com/jkiss](http://www.artiswhydesigns.com/jkiss) * My problem: *This problem doesn’t show in IE8.* The text color differs from the body of the main page to that of the sidebar. You will notice the sidebar text is completely black, where the main body text is grayish, not as dark as it could/should be. * CSS is set to display body text in black, what would be the problem? * Thanks so much in advance. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/) * (@chipbennett) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/#post-1979929) * Do you use either the Firefox or Chrome web browser? * If so, use the Firefox Firebug extension, or the Chrome Developer Tools, which will reveal what CSS declarations are being applied to specific elements. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/#post-1979930) * the post has inline styles that set the color to black: * `

With he` * otherwise, there are quite a few color declarations in the stylesheet; many of them with color #333. * Thread Starter [sdubin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdubin/) * (@sdubin) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/#post-1979931) * Chip, * I even used Firebug to scout out the problem, the CSS appears correct. * The font I am using is an installed Google font, and I just wondered if this were possible and how to correct: when I zoom the page out a lot, the larger the text gets the more black/visible it appears. Could the font that I am using appear a lighter color when it is scaled down? That is my thought, however, if this were true, wouldn’t the smaller text in the sidebar be grayish too? It’s black as night. * [Jeremy Pry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpry/) * (@jpry) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/#post-1979934) * When I look at your site, the body text is black, not gray. This is confirmed by analyzing the computed style in Safari. * Perhaps it’s because the font you’re using is very thin? A thin font can give the appearance of being lighter in color than it actually is. * Thread Starter [sdubin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdubin/) * (@sdubin) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/#post-1979940) * I did use Firebug and it confirmed that CSS is correct as text should be black. * I was thinking, and I’m wondering if this is possible, piggy-backing what JPry said; that since I am using a installed Google font, I noticed that when I zoom in on the body text of my page, the bigger the font gets the more back-to-black it appears to be. It is a really thin font, yes, but the text in the sidebar is even smaller than the body text and it displays black… Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘font colors differ in CSS, help!’ is closed to new replies. * 5 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [sdubin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdubin/) * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-colors-differ-in-css-help/#post-1979940) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics