On 2009/07/16 16:55 (GMT-0300) Daniel Gerep composed: > I'm using a font-size:18px; and the font is bold(obvious) but is there a way > to make it not bold? =)
Yes and no. At what size the apparent change to "bold" from "normal" occurs is characteristic of individual font families. Among the most common web fonts most change at either 17px or 18px. A very few do it above 18px, so you might achieve what you want by selecting one or more of those in your family rules. To easily see which behave how, open the samples pages on http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-face-index.html . Making it less obvious or distracting can usually be done by enabling or tuning various font smoothing features of your OS. Cleartype, anti-alias, sub-pixel rendering and/or hinting can mute the difference to various degrees from slight to can't see any difference from one size to the next. Naturally all these OS font tweaking options are local to individual systems, and cannot be implemented via CSS. The reason this "bolding" occurs is that at the low resolution that a 17px or 18px size represents there just aren't very many px available in a character box. At some certain size, letter stems simply must jump from 1px to 2px. Without the font smoothing techniques, there is no way to have an average vertical or horizontal stem width between 1px and 2px as would be necessary to prevent the apparent bolding. -- No Jesus - No peace , Know Jesus - Know Peace Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
