Font weight semi-light?

[ianyepan]

Can the user achieve (through building or downloading) a font weight version that's set between regular and light? I'd love to use light weight fonts, but Source Code Pro Light is too thin to see clearly on my screen (Macbook retina), not to mention extralight.

[frankrolf]

It depends a lot on the implementing application, but fine-tuning the desired weight would the a perfect use case for a variable font: https://v-fonts.com/fonts/source-code-variable

I have found that font thickness has a lot to do with other factors, such as the antialiasing method chosen. This can be a system-wide setting (“font smoothing”) or an application setting (font_options in Sublimetext, for example).