>> If I understand everything correctly he wants to achieve the >> following: Let's assume that normal shape is value 0 and fully >> emboldened is value 100. If he is asking for a font with bold >> value N, he wants that fontconfig returns a font that is a bit >> bolder, for example a font corresponding to bold value N + 5. > > fontconfig only provides a boolean value for emboldening. Uh, oh, bad wording on my side, sorry. What he's actually after is not emboldening per se but asking for *weight* N and wanting fontconfig return a font with weight N+5 – ideally without emboldening. Werner _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig