I'm making a LaTeX document for someone. A certain piece of text looks "bold" for them, even though I'm not using the \textbf
command. It's just a normal default LaTeX font. Is there any command to make a 'lighter version', i.e. make the text lighter, thinner? Something that looks to normal text, what normal text looks to bold?
The only solution is to change the metafont code. Save this answer.
Changing Font Weight We can use \textbf command to produce a bold text, and if we need to go back to the normal weight, which is also known as medium weight, we can use \textmd command.
Click Format > Font... Select Not Bold in the Font Style list. Click OK.
If you're interested in making just a small section lighter, you could use
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{light}{rgb}{0.5, 0.5, 0.5}
\def\light#1{{\color{light}#1}}
then wrap some text you want to make lighter in
\light{some text to make lighter}
\font\tenrm = cmr17 at 10pt
\tenrm
Note that \fontseries doesn't define what's available for any given font -- it accepts anything in the font definition files for the font family. the set is defined in the document fontname (ctan info/fontname), and definitely does contain light.
so the complaint is that fonts that the user has encountered either don't have light weights, or whoever wrote the .fd file didn't include it. that knuth's (metafont) fonts contain an extra-bold weight by default, but not anything light, is something to go away and think about.
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