Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (font-weight)
Apparently there’s been some interesting font-weight values around since CSS1. None of which work in many places, of course, in addition to the user needing the full font-family to render correctly.
This sheds some light for me on how “bold” can be so gross looking in most cases. Bolder and lighter values seem to behave a touch better, although I’d do some testing before relying on them.
CSS 1 Values: normal | bold | bolder | lighter | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900
via: font-weight is still broken
Image of how, ideally, the various font-weights are supposed to perform:
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cpawl #
font-weight values have been around for a long time and still suck. BOLD looks gross only depending on the font used and the line-height and letter spacing values. Otherwise bold can still be beautiful.
Bill Keller #
I’ve just recently began trusting font-weight: bold; again, I’ve been trying to keep an open mind.