On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 12:05, Matthew Miller <mat...@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. -- George N. White III
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