2014-02-16 21:25, John Johnson wrote:
Something I recall in a post here makes me think that for some fonts, a font-weight of 800 is ineffectual, as that font doesn’t “recognize” that weight, while other fonts do.
For most fonts, font-weight: 800 has the same effect as font-weight: bold or, if the font lacks a bold typeface and the browser does not apply “synthetic” (algorithmic) bolding, the same as font-weight: normal.
Is there a rule by which we can know whether a font can use 800, or if it tops out at 700, or doesn’t respect font-weight at all?
You need to know which typefaces exist in the font. If you are e.g. looking at fonts in a Windows environment, via Control Panel, a font with several typefaces is a folder that contains them, such as Arial Normal, Arial Bold, Arial Italic, etc. If you are using Google Fonts, the font descriptions contain a list of typefaces, using CSS weights from 100 to 900. There is no exact mapping between these weight values and typeface names.
In practice, font weights larger than 700 (bold) can usually be achieved on web pages only by using “downloadable” fonts via @font-face, naturally using a font that has such weights.
For example, Open Sans has weights 300, 400, 600, 700, and 800: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans Yucca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
