Pixelmatrix guide to set specific fonts in CSS »

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Fellow Portland-area designer Josh Pyles explores setting specific fonts, such as Helvetica Neue Light:

There are many options for the font-weight property including 100–900, lighter, normal, bold, and bolder. The problem is, this property doesn’t seem to work the way it’s intended to. If you set a font-weight of “lighter” or 100, the normal weight is still rendered.