Android text style missing light, medium, thin,

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AlikElzin-kilaka picture AlikElzin-kilaka · Aug 14, 2013 · Viewed 46.7k times · Source

When setting custom fonts for a textview, I can only choose normal, bold or italic: enter image description here

How can I set the style to be light instead of bold in the following example?

<TextViewWithCustomFont
...
android:textStyle="bold"/>

Answer

Alex Fu picture Alex Fu · Aug 14, 2013

This is font specific. Not all fonts have a light, medium, thin attribute/style, but the default font should. You can use the default light font by using fontFamily: sans-serif-light or for thin, fontFamily: sans-serif-thin.

For custom fonts, you would need to include the light version of the font and use it.

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