# Possible values for \fontseries and \fontshape

What are the possible values for `\fontseries` and `\fontshape`? I'm aware of

``````\fontseries{m}
\fontseries{bx}

\fontshape{n}
\fontshape{it}
``````

But I'm sure there're more of them.

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There's really no fixed set. The possible values depend on what's set up in the `.fd` file for the encoding-family pair. –  egreg Aug 25 '12 at 15:26
@egreg Now I've found (opening the `.fd` file) that my font has `l` for "light", and even it has `itsc` for italic small caps... –  yo' Aug 25 '12 at 15:46

Series, any combination of weight and width is [in theory] possible:

```weight                    width
Ultra Light       ul      Ultra Condensed     uc
Extra Light       el      Extra Condensed     ec
Light             l       Condensed            c
Semi Light        sl      Semi Condensed      sc
Medium (normal)   m
Semi Bold         sb      Semi Expanded       sx
Bold              b       Expanded             x
Extra Bold        eb      Extra Expanded      ex
Ultra Bold        ub      Ultra Expanded      ux
```

Shape:

```upright (normal)   n
italic             it
slanted/oblique    sl
small caps         sc
upright italic     ui
outline            ol
```

It depends to the definition of the font, if there are less or more ... For the current TL 2012 we get the following values for the series:

``````b,bc,bm,bux,bx,c,cl,d,db,dbuc,eb,ebc,ebx,el,f,g,i,l,lc,lux,lx,m,mb,mc,muc,mx,n,nx,
ny,o,s,sb,sbc,sbx,sl,ub,ubc,ubx,ux,w,x,xl,z
``````

and for the shape:

``````a,ac,b,bc,bl,bx,cal,crml,ds,fic,fr,fsc,g,gi,gu,i,ic,Iit,in,In,Isc,Isl,it,itsc,iv,jm,Jm,
kfn,l,li,n,na,ns,o,oi,oj,ol,os,out,p,r,ro,rs,s,sc,scit,sco,scsl,scui,sf,si,sk,sl,slsc,
so,sr,st,ta,tabnums,textdenomnums,textnumnums,tt,u,ui,uv,w
``````

See comment below where Heiko lists some fonts which refer to the given values.

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SERIES: `sbx` (kpfonts), `db` (romande), `dbuc`/`mc`/`muc`/`mux` (venturissans), `mb` (venturis2), `sbc`/`lc` (chextras), `mx` (venturissans2), `z`/`d`/`o`/`s` (libertine-legacy), `ebc`/`ubc`/`lx`/`ebx` (kurier), `cl` (opensans), `k` (allrunes). SHAPE: `scsl` (kpfonts), `si` (venturissans), `scit` (tex-gyre), `ic`/`bc` (libertine-legacy), `ac` (frcursive), `oi` (boisik), `gu`/`gi` (gillcm), `sco`/`cal`/`kfn` (kerkis), `tabnums`/`textnumnums`/`textdenomnums` (gfsartemisia), `Jm`/`jm`/`ds`/`ta`/`oj`/`so`/`sr`/`sk`/`fr`/`crml`/`s` (arabtex), `itsc`/`slsc` (bengali), `t`/`r`/`q`/`m` (allrunes) –  Heiko Oberdiek Aug 25 '12 at 19:49
SHAPE: `In`/`Isl`/`Iit` (cyrillic). –  Heiko Oberdiek Aug 25 '12 at 19:50
I also use the shape `bl` for two chessfonts (berlin and alpha in the enpassant package) to access black figurines. –  Ulrike Fischer Aug 26 '12 at 11:17
@Ulrike: is that package on TL? –  Herbert Aug 26 '12 at 11:44
Great Answer! Good to see that a lot more is going on internally than `\bfseries` (which should really be called `\bxseries`) and `\itshape` might make you believe :-) –  Stephan Lehmke Aug 26 '12 at 13:16

The standard manual for such questions are `fntguide` LaTeX2ε font selection

Here you can find the following hint:

The most common values for the font series are:

``````m             Medium
b             Bold
bx            Bold extended
sb            Semi-bold
c             Condensed
``````

The most common values for the font shape are:

``````n              Normal (that is ‘upright’ or ‘roman’)
it             Italic
sl             Slanted (or ‘oblique’)
sc             Caps and small caps
``````

You can select what you want as long as the font file exist.

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This is not completely true. As egreg mentioned, the `.fd` file defines which fonts exist. That is, there could be font files which are not referred in the `.fd` and are thus never used. –  Stephan Lehmke Aug 25 '12 at 15:57
@StephanLehmke: I know. The list is longer. However this are the standard ones. –  Marco Daniel Aug 25 '12 at 16:48
Sorry for not being clear. What I meant is it can well be that the font file exists, but you still cannot select it because the `.fd` file doesn't list it. –  Stephan Lehmke Aug 25 '12 at 17:28
@StephanLehmke: Indeed. –  Marco Daniel Aug 25 '12 at 18:01