Posted by Ed Mullen on 11/08/06 19:35

Richard Formby wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote
>
> [font-weight]
>
>> Err, what am I missing? I see no difference.
>>
>> http://edmullen.net/temp/weight.html
>
> You didn't go far enough.
>

Right. Just wanted to know why the effect wasn't what it seemed dorayme
was implying. For those interested I changed the test page at the
link above.

> In a test I ran font-weight 1 to 599 came up as 'normal', 600 to 999 'bold'.
>
> Font-weight does not do what you think it does. It is not a gradual "sizing"
> like font-size. The numbers are translated into the nearest "weight"
> provided in the font. Most fonts only have two, normal and bold. Some only
> have one.
>
> And no, you can't change that. Font weight is a property of the font, that
> is the .ttf, not the browser or the OS.

Understood, thanks.

Do you know of a good online resource that describes what Windows fonts
have what weights built into them? Are there any that have more than
two? I doubt I'd ever use this formatting but my curiosity has been
piqued. ;-)

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