Help with Font Weight declaration

Discussion in 'CSS' started by mnymkr, Jun 9, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I am having trouble with font weight on my friend's WP blog.

    http://www.bjrtechnologies.com/wp

    the post text needs a stronger text but not exactly bold

    the problem I am having is that font-weight seems not to work

    if I declare font-weight: bold the text will bold

    but no number declaration will work

    can someone write a CSS declaration that should work to bolden the post text
     
    mnymkr, Jun 9, 2009 IP
  2. ahsan_ma07

    ahsan_ma07 Peon

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    Try adding numbers instead of bold. For example you can try out font-weight: 100; to font-weight: 900;. Just test it out each to get the weight you prefer. Apart from bold you can use bolder or lighter as well. Hope it helps.
     
    ahsan_ma07, Jun 9, 2009 IP
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    markupdude Peon

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    Thanks for asking this question. It provoked me to dig up why i never got any number value to work like as you desire a bit bold but not exactly very bold.

    It seems many regular font families don't have different font-weight values apart from normal and bold [which i guess pretty much includes all websafe fonts like arial, tahoma, verdana, georgia]

    As this W3C page says

    Also looks like Myriad Pro has different weight values supported, so this guy managed to achieve that effect with 100, 200, 300 values - http://www.clagnut.com/blog/2228/

    I guess you have to be satisfied with bold. Or if the titles are Georgia, how about testing with font-weight:normal and font-size:23px; does that look somewhat similar to ur expectations?
     
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  4. mnymkr

    mnymkr Well-Known Member

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    I have tried font-weight: bold and it works

    I have tried every numer between 100 and 900 and it doesn't work.

    so the conclusion then is Georgia con on be normal or bold and a font weight number can't be used?
     
    mnymkr, Jun 10, 2009 IP