Is defaultFontStyle broken?

Question

I use primarily Component Diagrams and I generally bold all my text to make it contrast better with shape background colors. I have tried to use "skinparam defaultFontStyle bold" but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the diagram. If I use the individual xxxFontStyle directives, it will work. The other defaultFontXXX directives also seem to work fine (Name, Size, and Color).

For the record, bold nor italic will work. I use the excellent planttext.com which seems to keep up-to-date with PlantUML versions (I believe it is back-ended by the server provided by PlantUML themselves). I have tried for several months and across PlantUML versions to no avail.

Just curious if this is broken or if there is something else I need to do to get it to work.

Answer 1

Hello N.,

For that, you can now use `style`, as:

@startuml
<style>
element {
  FontStyle bold
}
</style>
component A
component "Component B"
component C [
it is component C
]
component D {
[E]
[F]
}
@enduml

Regards.