Thank you to support for answering my earlier question about using 300-weight (light) fonts in Newspaper.
So, CNN & several other news sites are going to 300-weight fonts. It’s the latest trend. However, to get newspaper there, I have to modify theme files, which means either using a child-theme or having to re-apply the changes every time an update comes out.
Is there a way to make the 300-weight fonts a standard option?
Note it depends on the font; some fonts are “normal” at 400 and don’t have a 300 version. Some fonts are “too thin” on all devices (ever notice those sites with headlines where on mobile you can barely read them for being too thin at 300 weight?).
Ideally you should disable all fonts setup with theme and instead build your own custom font stack to use in your style.css and load from your footer.php file — yes, you need to update this each time the theme updates.
Probably not best advice; but most poeple won’t want to load the 300 weight to bog down their website loading if not using it.
Just some feedback; might not help in any way 🙂
Unfortunately there is no simple way of customizing the theme files. If the setting you want cannot be done through the theme settings, then it probably means it will have to be re-applied on every update (almost). Depending on the modification a child theme can spare you a few updates worth but even a child theme is not update proof as if the file you modified also gets updated, you still have to replace it in the child theme and apply your customization again. And not all files will work from the child theme also.
Thank you!
