Font Weight – Tailwind CSS

Utilities for controlling the font weight of an element.

Basic usage

Setting the font weight

Control the font weight of an element using the font-{weight} utilities.

font-light

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

font-normal

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

font-medium

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

font-semibold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

font-bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

<

p

class

=

"

font-light

...

"

>

The quick brown fox ...

</

p

>

<

p

class

=

"

font-normal

...

"

>

The quick brown fox ...

</

p

>

<

p

class

=

"

font-medium

...

"

>

The quick brown fox ...

</

p

>

<

p

class

=

"

font-semibold

...

"

>

The quick brown fox ...

</

p

>

<

p

class

=

"

font-bold

...

"

>

The quick brown fox ...

</

p

>

Applying conditionally

Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover : font-bold to only apply the font-bold utility on hover .

<

p

class

=

"

font-normal

hover:font-bold

"

>

</

p

>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md: font-bold to apply the font-bold utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<

p

class

=

"

font-normal

md:font-bold

"

>

</

p

>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

Using custom values

Customizing your theme

By default, Tailwind provides nine font-weight utilities. You change, add, or remove these by editing the theme.fontWeight section of your Tailwind config.

tailwind.config.js

module

.

exports

=

{

theme

:

{

fontWeight

:

{

hairline

:

100

,

'extra-light'

:

100

,

thin

:

200

,

light

:

300

,

normal

:

400

,

medium

:

500

,

semibold

:

600

,

bold

:

700

,

extrabold

:

800

,

'extra-bold'

:

800

,

black

:

900

,

}

}

}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off font-weight value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<

p

class

=

"

font-[1100]

"

>

</

p

>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.