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Bold Changes Font Size on Labels

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#2,168 opened on Mar 23, 2018

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Description

Description

If you sent Font="Bold" on a Label, it changes the size of the font. This makes formatting text extremely difficult.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Clone this repo: https://ChristianFindlay@bitbucket.org/ChristianFindlay/xamarin-forms-scratch.git
  2. Run the UWP sample and click the Bold button
  3. Notice the bold label's text is larger than the non-bold label.

Expected Behavior

Setting Font="Bold" does not change size of font.

Actual Behavior

Setting Font="Bold" changes size of font.

Basic Information

  • Version with issue: 2.5.0.280555
  • Last known good version: ?
  • IDE: VS 2017
  • Platform Target Frameworks:
    • UWP: 16299
    • Other platforms probably have same issue
  • Android Support Library Version:
  • Nuget Packages: Xamarin Forms
  • Affected Devices: Probably all

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Reproduction Link

https://ChristianFindlay@bitbucket.org/ChristianFindlay/xamarin-forms-scratch.git

Contributor guide

Research direction
Examine the label rendering in Xamarin.Forms for UWP to understand how the Font property affects font size, particularly when 'Bold' is set. Look at the platform specific renderer and custom handler.
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
mobile dev
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C#Xamarin.Forms
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