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So. I've always had a small problem with the typefaces that some Bujold list messages had been coming in, but I'd always thought it was a problem that couldn't be fixed. But I decided to ask why, on a supposedly plain mail email list I was getting different fonts from different people. Well, it turned out it was an easy fix.

So here I am to ask the DW and LJ equivalent. Ever since the last LJ "upgrade," everything is printed in Arial. I find sans serif fonts a real abomination to read. Is there a way to easily change *just* the typeface and nothing else?

If you have an easy answer, I genuinely want to know how to fix it. If it's more complicated, then consider it rhetorical [g].

About the only thing that doesn't come through in Arial is my actual composition of a post, which shows up in Courier. Go figure.

Current Mood: curious

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cleverthylacine

The dead easy way which may not work if you read LJ/DW at work is to uninstall the sans-serif fonts that you hate. HTML text can't and won't display in any font that is not on your computer. :) That won't do anything about text that's been put onto graphics and merged, because that's not actually coded as text, it's part of the image, but should fix most of your HTML display issues.

Alternatively, and I have no idea how much functionality LJ has left to users to change their journal styles, you can set your journal style to display only in Georgia or Courier or some other font that you like and use ?style=mine everywhere.

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mmegaera

Is this the place you're talking about to change the fonts? http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml?group=style

Because if it is, it only changes the "lists" of entries (like my own LJ, or my FL), but when I click on an individual entry in my FL and use the ?style=mine, my theme basically goes away completely, and the individual entry displays black Arial on white with blue accents. No matter what I do to my theme, this does not change in any way, shape, or form. I am pretty sure that's a function of me having an "old-style" free account (the kind with no advertising), because my other LJ account is the kind with advertising, and it doesn't do that.

I'm not quite to the point of deleting Arial, which does have some functionality for me elsewhere in spite of its ugliness, and I'd rather keep Arial than have advertising on my primary LJ, so I suspect I'm stuck [wry g].