We should figure out a way for the theme to specify a font weight for when the "Bold" (<strong>) setting is applied to that text as well:
It's plausible that if a theme had lighter default text, they'd want the bold to be a 500 or 600 weight, rather than the default 700 weight. Usually this is something that's done via CSS, as you can see in this example from Twenty Twenty-One:
Themes can currently provide a font weight using theme.json:
We should figure out a way for the theme to specify a font weight for when the "Bold" (
<strong>
) setting is applied to that text as well:It's plausible that if a theme had lighter default text, they'd want the bold to be a
500
or600
weight, rather than the default700
weight. Usually this is something that's done via CSS, as you can see in this example from Twenty Twenty-One:https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyone/blob/481fc1edc2f797a3e797a8c3919da9d969cd8155/assets/css/ie-editor.css#L1111-L1113