Typography and Web Fonts - The CSS - page 152

font-weight
The font-weight property controls the weight, or thickness, of the char-
acters in a font.

■ normal | bold : Keywords representing normal weight type (default)
and bolded type

■ bolder | lighter : Sets a weight relative to the weight inherited from
the parent element

■ 100 to 900 : A nine-step scale, in increments of 100, ranging from thin
(100) to black (900)

Though a nine-step scale for font weights is defined, browsers typi-
cally display only two distinct steps—normal (400) and bold (700).

note

font-variant
Some typefaces are designed with several variant character sets, includ-
ing a set of small caps shapes. The font-variant allows selection of this
alternate set of characters.

■ normal : Selects the normal variant of a font face (default).
■ small-caps : Selects the small caps variant of a font face. If none exists,
small caps are simulated.

font-style
The style of the font is declared using the font-style property.
■ normal : Normal, upright, type (default).

■ italic : Italicized type.
■ oblique : Oblique type. If no oblique style is provided for a typeface,
italic may be used.