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What are bold fonts used for?
By contrast, a bold font weight makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text. Bold strongly stands out from regular text, and is often used to highlight keywords important to the text’s content.
What is semi bold font weight?
Common weight name mapping
| Value | Common weight name |
|---|---|
| 400 | Normal (Regular) |
| 500 | Medium |
| 600 | Semi Bold (Demi Bold) |
| 700 | Bold |
Is bold a font style?
A set of type characters that are darker and heavier than normal. A bold font implies that each character was originally designed with a heavier appearance rather than created on the fly from a normal character. See boldface attribute. Many fonts come in normal, bold, italic and bold italic variations.
What are some strong fonts?
To help you in that process, here are some of the best strong fonts that you, as a designer, should have.
- Mohave.
- Komoda.
- A Pompadour.
- Peace Sans.
- Promesh.
- Building.
- Peyo.
- Franchise.
How do I set’semi bold’font via CSS?
If you are on a mac, you can get the css-name of a font by opening fontbook, finding your font, and right-click -> validate font. It will then display the proper otf name of the font. In CSS, for the font-weight property, the value: normal defaults to the numeric value 400, and bold to 700.
What’s the difference between regular bold and semi bold?
You want Bold Bold read first, Regular Bold read second, because of Subtitling. You have titles, you have captions and you have subtitles. Subtitles still need to stand out. So more weight options, more italic options, more thin options will allow you to emphasize text in many ways.
Which is the best font to use in CSS?
I’m doing a Photoshop-to- XHTML conversion, and the website designer used the Myriad Pro Semi-bold font which looks good in the photoshop file, but when I try the semi-bold option in CSS, it looks pretty much like a normal bold font, which is too bold for my purpose.
What’s the difference between super bold and extra bold fonts?
Plain text, bold, and super-bold… For example, extra-bold will make the font look quite different in say, Photoshop, because you’re selecting a different font. The same applies to italic font, which can look very different indeed.