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

[goncholden]

------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 at 5:54 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 
wrote:
> goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > I have called in my init file
> > (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 160 :weight 'ultra-bold)
> > But (princ (face-attribute 'default :weight)) gives bold.
>
> Please use `M-x report-emacs-bug' when reporting bugs so that we can see
> the information about your Emacs build and OS.
>
> Does the font you use have an ultra-bold variation? Very few fonts have
> that weight (but many have the "black" weight, which is heavier).

Now that you mention it, I do not know exactly what font emacs is using.
I have modus-themes activated.  Are there monospace fonts which go to
ultra-bold?  I do not know whether emacs should report about whether
a weight setup fails for the font being used.

In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.32) of
2021-09-28 built on fuckup Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation',
version 11.0.11906000 System Description: Trisquel GNU/Linux Etiona (9.0)

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