Howdy George, ~~~ Thursday, January 22, 2015, 9:36:15 PM (USA 'Somewhere on-the-road time-zone'), you wrote the message that appears below.
My reply appears here and/or interspersed within your message. ~~~ > I have a client who wishes to have body copy as Helvetica Light. I'm on > a pc and have Helvetica LT Std. The following font-weights produce the > following results: > Anything between 100-500/Lighter appears as normal. 600 and 700 appears > as bold and 900 appears as Black. Without addressing your font appearance as stated above, I'll comment on your code below. Only if the site visitor has Helvetica installed on his/her system will the body copy be displayed thus. I don't have Helvetica on my Win7Pro system - thus, the body would be displayed in Arial, on my system, according to your code. To force use of a particular font, one would need to use something like @font-face to reference an external, on-line, font library. See: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/ Even with this, there will likely be a small percentage of site visitors who will have browser settings that will ignore such references - especially systems used by the visually impaired. It's not necessarily a good idea to force a particular font upon a site visitor. Within a graphic image, you control the font - but on page text content, it might be best to let the site visitor preferences be put into play. > How does one target Light? Thank you for your time and guidance. > |body{ > font-family: "Helvetica, Arial,sans-serif; > font-weight: 200; > } > George > | G'Jim c):{- -- Custom book-boxes: http://www.wyomerc.com/bookboxes/bookboxes.html Book repairs: http://www.wyomerc.com/bookrepair/bookrepairs.html My photography: http://www.gjim.com Savvy ponderable: "Don’t try to have the last word. You might get it." - Robert Heinlein, 'The Notebooks of Lazarus Long' --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
