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I have encountered that the font weight does not seem to scale the way I would have expected. The degree of "bold" does not always increase with the weight value but even reverses e.g. 700 being less bold than 600 ? Does anyone have an idea? Code and screenshot below. Cheers #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1) Example() Func Example() Local $f_size = 9 Local $h_win = GUICreate ( "TEST GUI ... FONT weight", 400, 350) GUISetBkColor(0xffffff, $h_win) GUISetFont(10, 400, 0, "Arial", $h_win, 2) GUICtrlCreateLabel("Test FONT weight ...", 10, 10) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 200)", 10, 60, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 200) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 400)", 10, 90, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 400) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 500)", 10, 120, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 500) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 600)", 10, 150, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 600) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 700)", 10, 180, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 700) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 800)", 10, 210, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 800) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) GUICtrlCreateLabel("The quick brown fox jumps over ... (weight = 900)", 10, 240, 380, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, $f_size, 900) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000099) Local $button = GUICtrlCreateButton("Close", 160, 310, 80, 20) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) While 1 Local $msg_pop = GUIGetMsg() Select Case $msg_pop = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ExitLoop Case $msg_pop = $button ExitLoop EndSelect WEnd GUIDelete() EndFunc