fontweight and fontstyle property

[dcjones]

Mirroring the SVG properties, allowing for bold, italic, etc.

[tbenst]

Old issue, but wondering if there is now a way to eg specify that all text should be normal and not bold (edit: in Gadfly)? Guessing this would depend on this issue being resolved..?

[Mattriks]

The default text fonts for Compose and Gadfly are here and here (they're not bold). In Gadfly, the current way to blanket change the fonts would be to create a custom theme. For fonts per text, see this discourse post.

[tbenst]

Thanks! For some reason, when I import SVG from Gadfly into Illustrator, the text is "doubled" giving the appearance of bold. Easy enough to delete one copy. And good to know about text, thx for the pointer

[Mattriks]

In svg, the font-family attribute can contain several fonts. You can see this also for Gadfly, by opening the svg file in a text editor. I don't use illustrator, so I'm wondering if illustrator attempts to render all the given fonts. You could test that by manually deleting (in a text editor) all the listed fonts for font-family except one.

[tbenst]

For what it's worth I figured out my issue (turns out not related to original post):

This will result in doubled text that appears bold:

font_size = 18pt
fig = compose(context(), Compose.text(0,font_size,"example text"),
            Compose.stroke("black"), fontsize(font_size))
fig |> SVG(joinpath(@__DIR__, "text_example.svg"))

This will not:

font_size = 18pt
fig = compose(context(), Compose.text(0,font_size,"example text"),
            Compose.fill("black"), fontsize(font_size))
fig |> SVG(joinpath(@__DIR__, "text_example.svg"))