Non variable fonts can only really make use of these set values although fine grained values eg. Bolder than 200 lighter than 400. Specifies the font weight. Bold pthicker font weight. Normal pthick font weight. If it has none you cannot make it bold at all.
The font weight property accepts either a keyword value or predefined numeric value. Default value depends on the browser. The available numeric values are. The font weight property sets the weight or thickness of a font and is dependent either on available font faces within a font family or weights defined by the browser. Yet they vary in. Default value is normal font family.
Specifies the font family. The available keywords are. Bolder than 300 lighter than 500. Uses the font that are used by captioned controls like buttons drop downs etc icon. The fontheight property should not be set to any value other than the controls fontheight value or 1. Width of the letters.
Bolder than 100 lighter than 300. Setting fontheight to 1 has the effect of clearing the cached height value and the value is recalculated the next time the property is referenced. Additionally fonts with the same weight can have very different thickness in the letter stroke. Font weight is meant for setting the weight boldness of the fontnormal is the default. The problem here is that the font itself must have one or more weights. Specifies the font size and the line height.
451 will be translated to one of these values for non variable fonts using the. Bold and accept anything the browser gives you. If you want a completely safe weight just use font weight. If youre the adventurous sort you can use the 100 900 values. Lower case height x height height of their ascenders. These three words are the exact same font size and the same cap height and descender height.
Bolder than the inherited font weight. Spacing between the letters. Lighter than the inherited font weight. Default value is normal font sizeline height. In earlier versions of the font weight specification the property accepts only keyword values and the numeric values 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 and 900.
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