Tailwind CSS Font Weight
The tailwind font weight utility class allows you to easily set the font weight for text elements.
Tailwind Font Weight
The tailwind font-weight utility class allows you to easily set the font weight for text elements. With Tailwind's font weight classes, you can quickly apply different font weights to your text without writing custom CSS.
Applying Tailwind Font Weight
To apply a font weight to an element, you can use the font-{weight}
utility class, where {weight}
represents the desired font weight. Tailwind CSS provides a set of default font weights that you can use out of the box.
<div class="font-thin">This text has a thin font weight.</div><div class="font-normal">This text has a normal font weight.</div><div class="font-semibold">This text has a semi-bold font weight.</div><div class="font-bold">This text has a bold font weight.</div><div class="font-extrabold">This text has a extra-bold font weight.</div>
Preview
This text has a thin font weight.
This text has a normal font weight.
This text has a semi-bold font weight.
This text has a bold font weight.
This text has a extra-bold font weight.
Default Tailwind Font Weights
Tailwind CSS includes a set of default font weights that you can use. Some of the commonly used ones include:
-
font-thin
: Sets the font weight to thin. -
font-normal
: Sets the font weight to normal. -
font-bold
: Sets the font weight to bold. -
font-extrabold
: Sets the font weight to extra bold.
You can choose the font weight that best suits your design and apply the corresponding utility class to your elements.
Numeric Tailwind Font Weights
In addition to the default font weights, Tailwind CSS also supports numeric font weights. You can specify font weights using numeric values from 100 to 900. For example, you can use font-300
for a lighter font weight and font-700
for a heavier font weight.
<div class="font-300">This text has a lighter font weight.</div>
<div class="font-700">This text has a heavier font weight.</div>
Hover Font Weight
Hover Font weight is an interactive font weight that changes when an action is performed. In this case, when you hover over a text. To achieve this, you can use the pseudo-class variant hover
before the font weight class.
For example, here is how you can make a text bold when you hover over it.
<p class="font-normal hover:font-bold">Hover over me!</p>
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Focus Font Weight
Focus Font weight is an interactive font weight that changes when an action is performed. In this case, when you focus on a text. To achieve this, use the pseudo-class variant focus
before the font-weight class. For example,
<input class="font-normal focus:font-bold" placeholder="Focus me" />
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Responsive Font Weight
Tailwind CSS allows you to apply font weights responsively at different breakpoints. To use responsive tailwind font weight classes, you can append the breakpoint prefix to the font weight
class. For example, md:font-bold
applies the bold font weight starting from the medium breakpoint and above.
<div class="font-normal md:font-bold"> This text has a normal font weight by default, but becomes bold starting from the medium breakpoint.</div>
In the above example, the font-normal
class is applied by default, setting the font weight to normal. However, starting from the medium breakpoint and above (md:font-bold)
, the font weight changes to bold.
Customizing Tailwind Font Weight
Tailwind CSS is highly customizable. If the default font weights don’t meet your needs, you can customize them in your tailwind.config.js file
. Here’s an example of how to add a custom font weight:
module.exports = { theme: { extend: { fontWeight: { "extra-light": 50, }, }, },};
Now, you can use font-custom in your project:
<p class="font-extra-light">This is custom weight text.</p>
Tailwind Font Weight Class Table
Class | Properties |
---|---|
font-thin | font-weight: 100; |
font-extralight | font-weight: 200; |
font-light | font-weight: 300; |
font-normal | font-weight: 400; |
font-medium | font-weight: 500; |
font-semibold | font-weight: 600; |
font-bold | font-weight: 700; |
font-extrabold | font-weight: 800; |
font-black | font-weight: 900; |
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