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Mathematica > Notebooks and Documents > Notebook Formatting & Styling > Text Styling > Font Options >

Built-in Mathematica Symbol

FontWeight

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

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

Plain fonts:

Bold fonts:

Plain fonts:

Bold fonts:

Specify the font weight without using the option:

Additional weights can be used on some computer systems:

Font weight can be specified in style-related options:

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