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

[goncholden]

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On Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 at 3:30 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:34:39 +0000
> From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, 53866@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Is there a way emacs can list fonts that closely match some attribute
> like ultra-bold.

We don't have such a command, but it could be written if needed.

However, you should really use the dedicated font tools for exploring

the fonts on your system, and Emacs is not such a tool.

> Does emacs know the list of fonts one could use?

It does, but only in general.

Could emacs describe (with a few examples) some good tools to help users define
the font they would want to use.