Most fonts have various styles within the same family, typically a bold and an italic one, often also a bold italic style, somewhat less often a small-caps and in a few cases extra-light/extra-bold or stretched/condensed versions.
The table below shows a number of different styles. Unless you have a very rich collection of fonts, many of the rows will be the same.
| rule | serif | sans-serif | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Styles | |||||
font-style: normal
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-style: italic
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-style: oblique
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
| Weights | |||||
font-weight: 100
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: 200
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: 300
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: normal
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: 500
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: 600
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: bold
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: 800
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-weight: 900
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
| Variants | |||||
font-variant: normal
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-variant: small-caps
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
| Stretch | |||||
font-stretch: ultra-condensed
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: extra-condensed
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: condensed
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: semi-condensed
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: normal
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: semi-expanded
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: expanded
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: extra-expanded
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
font-stretch: ultra-expanded
| The Quick… | The Quick… | |||
In CSS3, there is one more style available: 'font-effect' makes the letters look engraved or embossed.