Title: Increase default font size
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Increase default font size

 *  [IainCMassey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iaincmassey/)
 * (@iaincmassey)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-default-font-size/)
 * Hi, what’s the cleanest way to boost the Twenty Twelve default font size for 
   page content? Just want it slightly larger for readability.
    I don’t think I 
   really want to change the rem base for the whole site, right?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Anonymous User 5826054
 * (@anonymized-5826054)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-default-font-size/#post-3943214)
 * If you don’t want to change the whole site (including the width), change the 
   individual elements. For Twenty Twelve, 1 rem = 14 px, so take your desired font
   size and divide by 14.
 * For example, if you want to increase the font of the `body` to 18px, add this
   to your [child theme’s](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) CSS file:
 *     ```
       body {
       	font-size: 1.286rem;
       	}
       ```
   
 * Let me know if you have any questions.
 *  Thread Starter [IainCMassey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iaincmassey/)
 * (@iaincmassey)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-default-font-size/#post-3943345)
 * Many thanks, Kevin Marsden. It seems to be actually a div of class entry-content
   that’s controlling the specific text I would like a bit more legible. I am experimenting
   with the child theme css.
 * Kind regards.

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