FontStretches Class (System.Windows)

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FontStretches Class

Provides a set of predefined font stretches as static property values.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System..::.Object
System.Windows..::.FontStretches

Namespace: System.Windows
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public NotInheritable Class FontStretches

public static class FontStretches

XAML

See Remarks.

The FontStretches type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Condensed	Specifies a condensed font stretch.
	Expanded	Specifies an expanded font stretch.
	ExtraCondensed	Specifies an extra-condensed font stretch.
	ExtraExpanded	Specifies an extra-expanded font stretch.
	Normal	Specifies a normal font stretch.
	SemiCondensed	Specifies a semi-condensed font stretch.
	SemiExpanded	Specifies a semi-expanded font stretch.
	UltraCondensed	Specifies an ultra-condensed font stretch.
	UltraExpanded	Specifies an ultra-expanded font stretch.

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Remarks

A font stretch describes the degree to which a font form is stretched from its normal aspect ratio, which is the original width to height ratio specified for the glyphs in the font.

The FontStretches values correspond to the usWidthClass definition in the OpenType specification. The usWidthClass represents an integer value between 1 and 9. Lower numeric values indicate narrower widths; higher values indicate wider widths.

FontStretches Static Property Names

Font stretch	usWidthClass	% of normal
UltraCondensed	1	50%
ExtraCondensed	2	62.5%
Condensed	3	75%
SemiCondensed	4	87.5%
Normal	5	100%
SemiExpanded	6	112.5%
Expanded	7	125%
ExtraExpanded	8	150%
UltraExpanded	9	200%

For more information on XAML usage, see FontStretch. FontStretch is the value type for Silverlight properties or attributes that specify a font stretches value, but you must use static properties of FontStretches to provide a FontStretch value. In XAML, you specify the name of a FontStretches property as the attribute value. This functionality is enabled by native XAML parsing behavior that processes the string value.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Reference

System.Windows Namespace