06-16-2013, 07:59 PM | #1 |
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CSS Font-Weight Property Values???
Hi. I have already been using Calibre to modify the fonts on non-DRM'd eBooks that I read on my Sony PRS-650 for quite some time. Now, I would like to do a bit more tweaking to make the fonts appear darker.
My first question is: what are the allowable CSS font-weight property values? I know of "normal" and "bold" but what are the other valid values? My second question is: In Googling the web, I've seen numerical font-weight valid values being listed but I am not able to get these to work for some reason (e.g., "400", "600", "700", "800", "900"). Is there something I need to specify when using numeric weights instead? Last edited by soloist66; 06-16-2013 at 08:01 PM. Reason: Wanted to add an icon. |
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The only weight values that work are normal and bold.
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One thing that I've done to increase the contrast so I can keep reading much later outside than I would normally (without needing added light that is), is when I add extra fonts to my Sonys, I only use the bold versions. I make copy of the bold and bold italics, rename them to regular and italic, and you've got darker text everywhere.
What I read seldom has bold highlights, 99% of the time it's italics. And if there is bold text, it's usually in chapter titles or other headers where the font size is a bit larger as well. So I don't miss seeing a difference between regular and bold at all for myself. Sucky eyesight makes you use lots of tricks. |
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Many thanks for the speedy response, JSWolf. "Bold" gets the job done -- just wanted to see if I had any other options!
And yes, Ripplinger, I too am afflicted with "sucky eyesight"! |
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=184056 Last edited by JSWolf; 07-27-2016 at 05:39 PM. |
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Hmmm. I only included the quotes for the post. When I tried using the numeric weight values in Calibre to define Extra CSS, I did not use quotes, e.g.,
@font-face { font-family: "LexiaDaMa"; font-weight: 600; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/fonts/LexiaDaMa.otf); } |
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font-weight in the @font I think this needs to match the actual usage font-weight: in the selector (the reason there can be 4 @fonts. 1 for each combination of Style and Weight) |
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