style.css in skin folder
http://www.rossputin.com/blog/skins/terrafirma/style.css

search for .bSideBar for sidebar styles and .bPosts, .bText for posts

Sam,

I had been working with that file.

I just can't figure out which part of that controls the font for the text of the blog posts.

Can you be more specific in which section of that file I look?

Thanks,
Ross

.bPosts
.bText

.bSideBar
div.bSideItem

Use .bText { bla-bla-bla } to change post styles
Use div.bSideItem { bla-bla-bla } to change sidebar block styles

There's a large number of items that start with .bPosts!

Which item is it?

Am I changing one of the many "font size" entries, or am I changing one of the items that says h1 or h2, etc?

Also, where do I redefine the characteristics of h1, h2, h3, h4, etc?

Thanks again.

You don't have to search for specific style, you can make/redefine a new one.

Put the following in style.css

.bText { font-size:14px; color:#336699 }
h2.bText { color:red }

does that redefine h2? or does that set the font for the blog posts? or both?

h2.bText styles post title

Hmmmm....

I want to change the size of the font in the actual posting text.

When I changed the color in the following section, the color of the article title's didn't change. But when I changed the font size, the font size did change!

.bPosts h3, .bPosts h2
{
position: relative;
top: 4px;
font-size: 22px;
line-height: 25px;
color: #123345;
}

See what happens if you change the "font-size:70%;" in the following...

#skin_wrapper
{
	/* font-size: 10px;
	font-size:small; */
	font-family: Verdana, "Trebuchet ms", helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #3a3a3a;
	line-height: 18px;
	font-size:70%;
}

try 74%

See what happens if you change the "font-size:70%;" in the following...

This will change all fonts, use .bText instead

Good start...that changed the font size for everything on the page.

How about if I want to change the font size for the blog posts to one thing but for the sidebar stuff to something else?

And how about changing the font color of the blog posts but changing the font color of the sidebar stuff to something else?

Thanks again for your help.

See above!
I wrote it twice.

For posts
.bPosts
.bText

For sidebar
.bSideBar
div.bSideItem

Sorry, but I still don't get it!

There are a dozen or more .bPosts entries and nothing that says .bText!

Can you cut and paste in a reply exactly which section controls the font sizes?

Sorry I seem a bit dense here...

Simply add this to your style.css
.bText {font-size:120%;}
or
.bText {font-size:12px;}

Your right bText isn't included in you CSS so simply add it

OK, that's sorta working. The thing is that it just jumps from one size to another where I'm trying to get to an in-between size...a size which I was able to get when I did the first thing you said, changing the value in the #skin_wrapper section.

Any thoughts? It happens whether I use px or %. For example, when I go from 140% to 146%, nothing happens, but when I go from 146% to 147% the font jumps up a size.

Use pixels, it's easier. 10px, 12px, 14px....

But why do you think I can't get a size that I was able to get the other way?

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp

This may be of some help...
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

That skin sets a default size at 70% to start with... so it's effecting everything that's not got a specific overriding style size.

Change it to 12px or whatever your happy with.