How to use Font Weights with names?

[feinstein]

I want to use Roboto Medium as my font, but I can only see options like FontWeight.bold for setting the font weight and it's not close to Roboto Medium.

Is it possible to access the name of a given Font Weight defined in a Font?

[zoechi]

Please consider asking support questions in one of the other channels listed at http://flutter.io/support .

[feinstein]

I will, it's just that I think this might be a bug (a functionality missing) or lack of documentation, so I rather open it as an issue as well.

[zoechi]

This is why I kept it open. I don't know if this is supported or not.
Asking on StackOverflow or similar before reporting a bug/feature request is always a good idea though.

[anderscheow]

Since FontWeight.bold refer to FontWeight.w700, you can try this in your pubspec.yaml

fonts:
      - family: Roboto
        fonts:
          - asset: assets/fonts/Roboto-Medium.ttf
            weight: 700

[feinstein]

I found that usually "Medium" means weight 500, so it actually would be FontWeight.w500.

It would be nice to have some sort of hint for this in the documentation, since many of us aren't well versed in typography and have to deal with some specs sent from designers.

[Kartik1607]

Hi, I think that the documentation https://flutter.dev/docs/cookbook/design/fonts and for https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/painting/TextStyle-class.html are quite verbose and contain all the required information. Could you please let us know what extra hints should be included in documentation and how can it be made better.

[feinstein]

Sure, here are the things I would add:

1 - A hint that "Roboto Medium" would be "Roboto weight 500", as a way for people to know that "Medium" is actually a weight number and they should find out the number they want, since most of the time a Designer would just say "Roboto Medium", and many developers won't know what that is.

2 - The Cookbook Recipe for Fonts should have a reminder that MaterialApp already includes "Roboto" as the default Theme Font (and if there are any caveats, like something from Roboto missing, it should be there too).

Those are little additions, but I think they will enrich the text.

Thank you for being so open to contributions :)

[andoriyaprashant]

hey @feinstein
I want to work on this issue
can you please give me the address of this pubspec.yaml file
from where I can change or add something

[feinstein]

What do you mean by changing the pubspec.yaml? I don't think there's anything there to be changed.

[Hixie]

I wasn't 100% sure how to fix this issue since it was a bit vague and mentioned several problems, but I tried having a go at improving the FontWeight docs in flutter/engine#43750. Please don't hesitate to file specific bugs against specific documentation that you think is still inadequate. (The more specific the issue the better.)

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