Font weight epic

[schne324]

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In reviewing some UI recently with @bobbyomari, he noticed some issues with our font-weight

• [ ] drop support for var(--font-weight-thin) as it is unused (this will be a BREAKING CHANGE for any cauldron consumers who rely on this var)
• [ ] drop support for var(--font-weight-light) as it is unused (this will be a BREAKING CHANGE for any cauldron consumers who rely on this var)
  • [ ] no longer need to import it either
• [ ] button's font-weight should be set to var(--font-weight-medium)

[bobbyomari]

For clarity, the font-weights are as followed:

• font-weight: 400 = regular
• font-weight: 500 = medium
• font-weight: 700 = bold

Best practices is to use the numerical value and not the words 😄

[scurker]

drop support for var(--font-weight-thin) as it is unused (this will be a BREAKING CHANGE for any cauldron consumers who rely on this var)

It is used in one spot: https://github.com/dequelabs/cauldron/blob/f7af2061c4314f69641af80c9f5bfffee8399f74/packages/styles/forms.css#L224

Am I assuming correctly that we're updating the font weight here with this proposed change?

[scurker]

I additionally found other usages of font-weight-light as well.

[scurker]

We can update the usages of this, but should not remove the variables until we decide we want to release a breaking change.