10-05-2018, 03:15 PM
When you said "Is there any possibility that font weight will be added to the gimp in the future?" you implied that given a font, the software can compute a light or heavy version. This is not true. The font must come with several variants (each hand-tweaked by the font author) and all the software does is pick a specific variant. Each variant has specific "font attributes" (fonts work roughly the same in Windows, OSX and Linux, even if some font formats are trickier than other to use.