Typophile

Is there a normal difference between normal weight and bold?

Russell McGorman

I’m looking at one typeface where the bold is 44% thinker in a vertical stroke on an uppercase letter that the same stroke on the regular weight and another where the difference is 5%. At 5% of difference between the bold and regular, it’s hard to tell they are different when they aren’t next to each other.

Is there a normal range of difference between a weight called “regular” and one called “bold”?

thanks.

Things vary dramatically from one typeface to another. About double the stroke thickness seems to be the average.

Regards,

T

Oops edit, left a tag open. I also described the amount of difference in stroke weights more clearly.

Thanks, T

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