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Does anyone know how to combine the FontWeight option with Text[] items in Mathematica? It works fine with Style[], according the documentation. However when I feed this to Text[] (to then feed into the Graphics[] function), the weighting disappears and only assumes one of two weights.

Thanks in advance

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You have to do something like

Text[Style["some text", FontWeight -> weight]]

See this example from the documentation of Text:

Graphics[{Text[Style["ABCDEF", Large, Bold, Red], {0, 0}, 
   Automatic, {2, 1}], Circle[]}]

which produces Bold text using FontWeight

The documentation of Bold says:

Bold is effectively equivalent to FontWeight->Bold

Edit This might indeed be a bug. Even if the system supports multiple font weights, in Graphics there really only seem two to be available.

weights = {"Thin", "Light", "Plain", "Medium", "SemiBold", "Heavy", "Black", "Fat"};

Row@Table[Style["A", Large, FontWeight -> w], {w, weights}]

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Row@Table[ImageCrop@Graphics[#]&@Text@Style["A", Large, FontWeight->w], {w,weights}]

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    $\begingroup$ that doesn't work though. If you try to feed "Heavy", "Black", or "Fat", these are all identical to entering a Fontweight-> "Bold", as I could have elaborated a bit more on in the original question. I need heavier weights, but thank you anyways $\endgroup$
    – Wai-Ga D. Ho
    Jun 18, 2020 at 20:53
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    $\begingroup$ @Wai-GaDHo From the docs: "Standard settings are Plain and Bold. For some fonts and on some computer systems, additional settings are supported, such as [...] "Heavy", "Black", and "Fat"". You are probably trying to use a font combination that does not support those attributes. $\endgroup$
    – MarcoB
    Jun 18, 2020 at 21:01

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