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FontWeight

is an option for Style, Cell, and related constructs that specifies how heavy the characters in a font should be.

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FontWeight

FontWeight

is an option for Style, Cell, and related constructs that specifies how heavy the characters in a font should be.

Details

  • Standard settings are Plain and Bold.
  • For some fonts and on some computer systems, additional settings are supported, such as "Thin", "Light", "Medium", "SemiBold", "Heavy", "Black", and "Fat".

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Basic Examples  (2)

Plain fonts:

Wolfram Language code: Style["AaBbCcDd", Large, FontWeight -> Plain]

Bold fonts:

Wolfram Language code: Style["AaBbCcDd", Large, FontWeight -> Bold]

Scope  (3)

Specify the font weight without using the option:

Wolfram Language code: Style["AaBbCcDd", Large, Bold]

Additional weights can be used on some computer systems:

Wolfram Language code: Table[Style["ABC", Large, FontWeight -> w], {w, {"Light", "Medium", "SemiBold", "Heavy", "Black", "Fat"}}]

Font weight can be specified in style-related options:

Wolfram Language code: Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, PlotLabel -> Sin[x], LabelStyle -> (FontWeight -> Bold)]
Wolfram Language code: ContourPlot[Sin[x y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}, FrameStyle -> Bold]
Wolfram Research (1996), FontWeight, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontWeight.html (updated 2007).

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), FontWeight, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontWeight.html (updated 2007).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "FontWeight." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2007. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontWeight.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). FontWeight. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontWeight.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_fontweight, author="Wolfram Research", title="{FontWeight}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontWeight.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_fontweight, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={FontWeight}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontWeight.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}