RE: Disable bold fonts?

[Drew Adams]

> Is there a way to disable bold fonts entirely?  Some X fonts (for
> example, the smaller -misc-fixed ones) look ugly to me in bold, so I'm
> looking for a way to disable bold in general rather than removing it
> from every face I see that uses 'bold for the :weight attribute.

This might not be the officially recommended way to do it, and it might not be
the best way to do it, but you could simply customize face `bold' to just
inherit from face `default' (with no other properties). IOW, redefine `bold' to
be the same as `default'.