How to increase excerpt font size in article-template (debut theme)?

Topic summary

Increase the excerpt font size in a Shopify article template (Debut theme). The goal is to make the excerpt look more like a subheading.

A participant asked for store URL/password to diagnose directly. The requester preferred to collaborate and asked for best practices instead.

A simple CSS change was applied and worked: .article-excerpt { font-size: larger; }. Before/after screenshots show the excerpt clearly larger.

Open question: whether using the CSS keyword “larger” is a good practice. No consensus or authoritative guidance was provided; the thread remains unresolved.

Technical notes:

  • The selector .article-excerpt targets the excerpt element; editing theme CSS affects all article excerpts site-wide.
  • “font-size: larger” is a relative CSS keyword, increasing size based on the parent’s font size (not a fixed pixel/rem value).

Artifacts central to understanding: screenshots illustrating the original and the updated font size. No other code or attachments beyond the single CSS rule.

Summarized with AI on February 20. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi Shopify Community,

I wanted to increase the font size of the excerpt in my article template (debu theme). It looks too small for a subheading. How do I increase the font-size?

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Hello There,

Please share your store URL and password.
So that I will check and let you know the exact solution here.

Hi ZestardTech.

Could we work on it together? What would be the best practice?

/* increased the font-size of article excerpt in article template */
.article-excerpt {
font-size: larger;
}

This worked. But, I don’t know if it is


a good practice.