(09-02-2021, 12:05 PM)X3nion Wrote: But generally my question is: How can I then make the text more bold? The text font unfortunately doesn't allow a bond type, and I'd like the letters to be a little more bond.
If you want a font to be "thicker" a solution is to draw a moderately thick line along the outline of the text:
1. obtain a path from the text layer (Layer ➤ Path from text)
2. Edit ➤ Stroke path the path in Line mode with a thickness 2x what you want (because one half of it will be stroked over the existing characters) using the same color. Use the Miter join style if you want pointy angles, but keep the miter limit low (<5).
Before doing so you may want to increase the spacing between letters to leave space for the added outline.
As a general rule, our eyes are very sensitive to the edges of text, and we like them to be sharp, while most tools in Gimp will blur them somewhat, so text is best created directly in its final form.