From the course: Choosing and Using Web Fonts
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Exploring a font with multiple weights and styles
From the course: Choosing and Using Web Fonts
Exploring a font with multiple weights and styles
Now that we've cleared one of the fonts out of our Typekit, it's time to add Museo Slab, and apply it to our Web page. So let's find Museo Slab, and add it to our kit. Now, you can see that Museo Slab has more weights than we've used thus far in the course; 100, 300, 500, 700, 900, and 1000, and these numbers don't match up with what we've been used to using. We've been using 400 for regular, and 700 for bold, but Museo Slab doesn't have a 400. It has a 300, and a 500. So how do we know what weights to use? Well, we don't, until we test them. We can narrow it down a bit, though. 100 is going to be very light. I wouldn't use it unless I was using very, very large text. And the same is true with the 1,000. It's going to be very heavy, and I wouldn't use it unless I was using very, very large text. So probably the 300 or 500 could work for our text weight, and we know that in our text, we also use an italic, so we should also select the 300 and 500 Italic. We're going to be using a bold…
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