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# Font Traits

The keys for accessing font traits from a font descriptor.

## Topics

### Font Trait Keys

[`kCTFontSymbolicTrait`](/documentation/CoreText/kCTFontSymbolicTrait)

The symbolic traits value from the font traits dictionary.

[`kCTFontWeightTrait`](/documentation/CoreText/kCTFontWeightTrait)

The normalized weight trait from the font traits dictionary.

[`kCTFontWidthTrait`](/documentation/CoreText/kCTFontWidthTrait)

The normalized proportion (width condense or expand) trait from the font traits dictionary.

[`kCTFontSlantTrait`](/documentation/CoreText/kCTFontSlantTrait)

The normalized slant angle from the font traits dictionary.


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