I believe the default weight is already medium, as seen here: https://github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeEdit/blob/0f87857497d24f65b6310634251f63d8e3935c3d/CodeEdit/Features/Settings/Pages/TextEditingSettings/Models/TextEditingSettings.swift#L185

But XCode goes even further as to highlight keywords and certain other tokens with bold (notice in the XCode screenshot the variable names have the same weight as CodeEdit's current font).

Would also appreciate input on what the strokeWidth we use should be; I was tampering between -3.0 and -4.0 (which I believe is what Xcode uses), and couldn't really decide which one looked better.

Actually, -5.0 might be closer:

@austincondiff bump?

I don’t think this is the correct way to change the font weight. @thecoolwinter do you have any ideas how we might better do this?

Instead of increasing weight via stroke width, using font weights directly would be more robust for various fonts. Different fonts use different stroke widths for each weight, so using a constant stroke width modifier for certain captures might result in slightly different typeface than expected.

I hate to ask you to throw away this work, but I'd also rather it be tied to the theme rather than hardcoded to specific captures. That'll be more flexible for users, and fits in with existing theme code. It should just require a change to the theme struct and ThemeAttributesProviding protocol. Adding a small struct for each capture in the theme that contains both a color and font weight. That'll help support future attributes if needed too, like underlining.