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How to reduce the weight of font - JamesJames - 07-20-2017
Hi,
I increased the size of a font to 2600, but the line weight of the font, also increases, is there any way to decrease the font weight without reducing the SIZE?
In the attachment, I need The font in 2, to match the font weight in 1.
Thanks in Advance!!
RE: How to reduce the weight of font - Ofnuts - 07-20-2017
The "weight" doesn't change, it's a characteristic of the font. What changes is the thickness of the glyphs (which for a given weight is more or less proportional to the height.
So, assuming you mean the thickness, the glyphs in 1 are thicker than those in 2 so you would be increasing the thickness of 2? And thus filling the loop of the "l", presumably.
RE: How to reduce the weight of font - rich2005 - 07-20-2017
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.
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RE: How to reduce the weight of font - JamesJames - 07-24-2017
(07-20-2017, 08:23 PM)thank you both very much , I think I\d be better off choosing another font. rich2005 Wrote: 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.