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LaTeX - Making a lighter version of text, like anti-bold?

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?

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Amandasaurus Avatar asked Mar 25 '10 15:03

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3 Answers

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}

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Filip Kilibarda Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 05:10

Filip Kilibarda


\font\tenrm = cmr17 at 10pt
\tenrm
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Alexey Malistov Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 06:10

Alexey Malistov


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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Robin Fairbairns Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 06:10

Robin Fairbairns