Subject: bug#53866: face-attribute giving bold for ultra-bold attribute

From: goncholden <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 03:44:04 +0000

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On Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 at 3:30 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:34:39 +0000
> From: goncholden [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
>
> Is there a way emacs can list fonts that closely match some attribute
> like ultra-bold.

We don't have such a command, but it could be written if needed.

However, you should really use the dedicated font tools for exploring

the fonts on your system, and Emacs is not such a tool.

> Does emacs know the list of fonts one could use?

It does, but only in general.

Could emacs describe (with a few examples) some good tools to help users define
the font they would want to use.