If you want a completely safe weight just use font weight. Lower case height x height height of their ascenders. Specifies the font size and the line height. Specifies the font family. The fontheight property should not be set to any value other than the controls fontheight value or 1. Additionally fonts with the same weight can have very different thickness in the letter stroke.

Yet they vary in. Specifies the font weight. If youre the adventurous sort you can use the 100 900 values. Default value is normal font family. Uses the font that are used by captioned controls like buttons drop downs etc icon. Spacing between the letters.

Bolder than 100 lighter than 300. 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. If it has none you cannot make it bold at all. Lighter than the inherited font weight. Width of the letters. 451 will be translated to one of these values for non variable fonts using the.

Bold pthicker font weight. The available keywords are. These three words are the exact same font size and the same cap height and descender height. Default value is normal font sizeline height. The available numeric values are. Font weight is meant for setting the weight boldness of the fontnormal is the default.

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. The problem here is that the font itself must have one or more weights. Bolder than 200 lighter than 400. Default value depends on the browser. Bold and accept anything the browser gives you. Non variable fonts can only really make use of these set values although fine grained values eg.

Normal pthick font weight. 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. Bolder than 300 lighter than 500. The font weight property accepts either a keyword value or predefined numeric value. Bolder than the inherited font weight.

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