You can set the default settings for your text font, colour, size and style for the three most commonly used text text formats: Default font, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Hyperlink.
These default settings are then applied to the text displayed throughout your website (for example, wherever you have used the Text widget) except for text that you have explicitly formatted locally instead of using the default settings.
Using default text formats helps ensure that all the text throughout your site has a consistent appearance. It also allows you to change the default settings later to automatically update throughout your entire website without needing to reformat text page by page.
Whenever you edit text throughout your website and use the Heading 1 or Heading 2 format, this will automatically set <h1> or <h2> tags that are considered useful for search engine optimisation (SEO).
Navigate to Site Settings then click Text.
Here you can choose your desired font, colour, size and style.
Note that you can add your own colours to the colour palette by clicking on any of the dropdown arrows under
Colour and adding a
hex code in hex colour area as highlighted below, or you can add them as custom colours on the
Custom Colour tab:
Once added, the custom colour will show as one of your colour options as below:
Once you have selected your fonts, colours, sizes and font styles for each setting, click Save.
The colour and font changes will now be implemented site-wide.
To use the different text formats, click on +ADD CONTENT and select Text to add a Text widget.
On the text editor click on the the dropdown arrow beside the text format:
Select the format that you would like to apply:
Here is an example:
Whenever you edit text throughout your website and use the Heading 1 or Heading 2 format, this will automatically set your HTML with <h1> or <h2> tags that are considered useful for search engine optimisation (SEO).