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Font weight

Utilities for controlling font weight including bold, semibold, medium, normal, and light weights.

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Class Styles
.fw-lighter font-weight: lighter;
.fw-light font-weight: 300;
.fw-normal font-weight: 400;
.fw-medium font-weight: 500;
.fw-semibold font-weight: 600;
.fw-bold font-weight: 700;
.fw-bolder font-weight: bolder;

Font weight

Quickly change the font-weight of text with these utilities. font-weight utilities are abbreviated as .fw-*.

Bold text.

Bolder weight text (relative to the parent element).

Semibold weight text.

Medium weight text.

Normal weight text.

Light weight text.

Lighter weight text (relative to the parent element).

HTML
<p class="fw-bold">Bold text.</p>
<p class="fw-bolder">Bolder weight text (relative to the parent element).</p>
<p class="fw-semibold">Semibold weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-medium">Medium weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-normal">Normal weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-light">Light weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-lighter">Lighter weight text (relative to the parent element).</p>

CSS

Sass utilities API

Font weight utilities are declared in our utilities API in scss/_utilities.scss. Learn how to use the utilities API.

SCSS
"font-weight": (
  property: font-weight,
  class: fw,
  values: (
    lighter: $font-weight-lighter,
    light: $font-weight-light,
    normal: $font-weight-normal,
    medium: $font-weight-medium,
    semibold: $font-weight-semibold,
    bold: $font-weight-bold,
    bolder: $font-weight-bolder
  )
),