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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: 18818@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, sunyijiang@gmail.com
Subject: bug#18818: Incorrect font weight in dark background, Emacs 24.4 on Mac OS X 10.10
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:03:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7fjyv14.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YSDNint4UOQLhba/@idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 10:55:22 +0100)

> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 10:55:22 +0100
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> Cc: 18818@debbugs.gnu.org, Sun Yijiang <sunyijiang@gmail.com>
> 
> > +Synthetic bold looks thinner if the background is darker than the
> > +foreground and the LCD font smoothing is turned on.  In such cases,
> > +you can turn off synthetic bold for particular fonts and use
> > +overstriking instead by customizing the variable
> > +@code{face-ignored-fonts}:
> > +
> > +@lisp
> > +(push "\\`-[^-]*-monaco-bold-" face-ignored-fonts)
> > +@end lsip
> 
> I assume that customisation only affects Monaco, so it may be worth
> adding a "for example" or something to make it clear it's not supposed
> to fix it in all cases.
> 
> And perhaps it should go in etc/PROBLEMS instead of the manual?

Yes, probably.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-21 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-24  8:35 bug#18818: Incorrect font weight in dark background, Emacs 24.4 on Mac OS X 10.10 Sun Yijiang
2016-06-18 14:45 ` Alan Third
2016-06-18 23:54   ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2021-08-19 14:31     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-21  9:55       ` Alan Third
2021-08-21 10:03         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-21 13:03           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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