Font Weight

Utilities for controlling the font weight of an element.

Quick reference

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;

Basic usage

Setting the font weight

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


1. <p class="font-light ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
2. <p class="font-normal ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
3. <p class="font-medium ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
4. <p class="font-semibold ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
5. <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.


1. <p class="font-normal hover:font-bold">
2. <!-- ... -->
3. </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.


1. <p class="font-normal md:font-bold">
2. <!-- ... -->
3. </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


1. module.exports = {
2. theme: {
3. fontWeight: {
4. thin: '100',
5. hairline: '100',
6. extralight: '200',
7. light: '300',
8. normal: '400',
9. medium: '500',
10. semibold: '600',
11. bold: '700',
12. extrabold: '800',
13. 'extra-bold': '800',
14. black: '900',
15. }
16. }
17. }

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.


1. <p class="font-[1100]">
2. <!-- ... -->
3. </p>

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