Add font weight variable

[ciro207]

Is it possible to add a @font-family-weight in the variables.less in BS3?
Maybe it is useful also for every class

@font-family-sans-serif
@font-family-serif
@font-family-monospace

There are so many times I want to use different weight such as 300

Thanks!

[zlatanvasovic]

It's better to use bold, semibold etc. instead of numbers (300, 500, 800...).

[ciro207]

Maybe you're right

Light 300
Normal 400
Semi-Bold 600
Bold 700
Extra-Bold 800

[Itrulia]

@zdroid thats wrong, numbers are the go since there are more different numbers than keywords and sometimes the number is different than the keyword.

As an example: semibold is between 500-600 light between 200-300, book between 300-400 and ultralight 50-200.

but css uses fixed weights with keywords. And the problem is, if your font has a weight of 100 and 200 and you use as an example 120 css will use 200

[mdo]

I don't think we'll add variables for this.

[am80l]

This would be helpful for my use case. We use licensed web fonts exclusively and only have weights of 200, 400, 600, 800, so a default font-weight of 300 doesn't make much sense.

[zlatanvasovic]

500 is default here.

[goodwink]

This would be very useful for us also, for the same reasons as @am80l. It is very helpful to be able to set the default font weight in the same way in which you can set the heading font weight.

[zlatanvasovic]

Headings are very specific type of textual elements, so they should have a special font weight variable.

[gopz]

What is the current workaround for setting a default font weight? Do you have to change it in the bootstrap less files? I would rather not update this every time I update bootstrap.

[cvrebert]

Locking since this issue petered out just over 1 year ago.