On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 12:05, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:51:57PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Interesting. Yes, that one works. Although the bolding when picking
size 20 seems rather slight.
But no difference with Monospace.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
Of course there is one small issue. If you're using a Bold font and a
terminal based application which
then issues the bold esc sequence there will be no additional Bolding.
I wonder if that wasn't the reason it was decided to remove the easy
ability select bold fonts.
This makes sense to me. It's nice that there's an option to configure it for someone who really wants it, but making everything bold isn't really the right approach to the problem in general as it's "abusing" font weight for a purpose other than what it was intended for.
A purpose that is a holdover from printed material and not well-suited to color screens. I suspect there is really a narrow range of weight that optimizes readability, so we need other cues to replace bold, italic, etc.