07-20-2017, 08:23 PM
As Ofnuts says the weight is not a property you can change unless possibly using a CAD application.
You might be better off trying a font with both medium and light versions.
If you want to fudge the thickness. Make a selection of the outline, shrink it and fill that selection on a separate layer. (1)
Text layer active, Layer menu -> Transparency -> Alpha to Selection then Selection -> Shrink 2 or 3 pix. Then fill on a new layer. Turn the visibility of the text layer off.
A better way, is use a vector application such as Inkscape. Even that is fudged, The character has a white stroke which when removed in Gimp leaves the fill (2) Advantage it is a vector and when importing into Gimp any size can be set.
You might be better off trying a font with both medium and light versions.
If you want to fudge the thickness. Make a selection of the outline, shrink it and fill that selection on a separate layer. (1)
Text layer active, Layer menu -> Transparency -> Alpha to Selection then Selection -> Shrink 2 or 3 pix. Then fill on a new layer. Turn the visibility of the text layer off.
A better way, is use a vector application such as Inkscape. Even that is fudged, The character has a white stroke which when removed in Gimp leaves the fill (2) Advantage it is a vector and when importing into Gimp any size can be set.