FontWeights Class (System.Windows)

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FontWeights Class

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

Inheritance Hierarchy

System..::.Object
System.Windows..::.FontWeights

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

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public NotInheritable Class FontWeights

public static class FontWeights

XAML

See Remarks.

The FontWeights type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Black	Specifies a "Black" font weight.
	Bold	Specifies a "Bold" font weight.
	ExtraBlack	Specifies an "ExtraBlack" font weight.
	ExtraBold	Specifies an "ExtraBold" font weight.
	ExtraLight	Specifies an "ExtraLight" font weight.
	Light	Specifies a "Light" font weight.
	Medium	Specifies a "Medium" font weight.
	Normal	Specifies a "Normal" font weight.
	SemiBold	Specifies a "SemiBold" font weight.
	SemiLight	Specifies a "SemiLight" font weight.
	Thin	Specifies a "Thin" font weight.

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Remarks

A font weight describes the relative weight of a font, in terms of the lightness or heaviness of the strokes. Weight differences are generally differentiated by an increased stroke or thickness that is associated with a given character in a font, as compared to a "normal" character from that same font.

The FontWeights values correspond to the usWeightClass definition in the OpenType Specification. The usWeightClass represents an integer value between 1 and 999. Lower values indicate lighter weights; higher values indicate heavier weights.

FontWeights Static Property Names

Font weight	usWeightClass
Thin	100
ExtraLight	200
Light	300
Normal	400
Medium	500
SemiBold	600
Bold	700
ExtraBold	800
Black	900
ExtraBlack	950

For more information on XAML usage, see FontWeight. FontWeight is the value type for Silverlight properties or attributes that specify a font weight value, but you must use static properties of FontWeights to provide a FontWeight value. In XAML, you specify the name of a FontWeights 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