[Beta] Incorrect font weight
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 11.8k
- Forks
- 7.9k
- Avg merge
- 1d 11h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 11
Description
This is the current font weight of paragraphs in the beta docs

The computed styles have a font weight of 400 but it is actually 500 because there is no font face for the regular font. there is only a font face for the font of weight 500 and this can be found in index.css that only has the following font faces:
@font-face {
font-family: 'Source Code Pro';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
font-display: swap;
src: url('/fonts/Source-Code-Pro-Regular.woff2') format('woff2');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Optimistic Display';
src: url('https://beta.reactjs.org/fonts/Optimistic_Display_W_Lt.woff2')
format('woff2');
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Optimistic Display';
src: url('https://beta.reactjs.org/fonts/Optimistic_Display_W_Md.woff2')
format('woff2');
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Optimistic Display';
src: url('https://beta.reactjs.org/fonts/Optimistic_Display_W_Bd.woff2')
format('woff2');
font-weight: 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
The solution would be to add a font face for the regular font because the current font weight for the paragraphs is a bit unreadable.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in index.css and inspect the Optimistic Display @font-face declarations shown in the issue. Add the missing regular font face, then verify that beta documentation paragraphs use the intended regular weight and are more readable in the browser.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- documentation, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100