FontWeight Structure
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Refers to the density of a typeface, in terms of the lightness or heaviness of the strokes.
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)
XMLNS for XAML: Not mapped to an xmlns.
The FontWeight type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Equals | Determines whether the current FontWeight object is equal to a specified object. (Overrides ValueType::Equals(Object).) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Retrieves the hash code for this object. (Overrides ValueType::GetHashCode().) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns a text string that represents the value of the FontWeight object. (Overrides ValueType::ToString().) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | Equality | Compares two instances of FontWeight for equality. |
| Inequality | Evaluates two instances of FontWeight to determine inequality. |
Weight differences are generally differentiated by an increased stroke or thickness that is associated with a given character in a typeface, as compared to a "normal" character from that same typeface.
Note Not all weights are available for all typefaces. When a weight is not available for a typeface, the closest matching weight is returned.
FontWeight is the value type for Windows Phone 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.
FontWeights Static Property Names
Font weight | usWeightClass |
|---|---|
100 | |
200 | |
300 | |
400 | |
500 | |
600 | |
700 | |
800 | |
900 | |
950 |
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.