Should we standardise font weights

[hankscorpio]

interesting article

Should we standardize the naming of font weights?

A guest article by Pedro Mascarenhas Introduction How the General Public relates to fonts. With the entry of personal computers in people’s lives, fonts entered the dictionary and the knowledge of the common mortals. Now, children learn to write both by hand and computer. Any user of text applica...

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[Levi]

I'm a bit 'hmm' on this... I don't really class extra bold as the same as 'bold', hell I wouldn't even class heavy as 'bold'

But then the question arises, how does this work with naturally thicker or thinner fonts.

And there's a typo...tickness lol

 

[deannalu1]

extra bold is just a bit too much, heavy seems like semi bold and bold seems like the perfect thickness

 

[eddypeck]

What about medium?