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or, if you want it lighter, change the colour.

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19 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

or, if you want it lighter, change the colour.

Or the opacity of the existing color, perhaps.

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Sounds like the OP is talking about the strength of the font, like light, regular, medium, bold. 

As far as I know there is no way of decreasing the font thickness. Now if you wanted to make it thicker you could apply a stroke to it in very small amounts to bolden the font. No way to do this in reverse, at least that I know of.

 

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Just now, wonderings said:

No way to do this in reverse,

Add a center stroke in small increments the same color of the background (e.g. white)

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Just now, carl123 said:

Add a center stroke in small increments the same color of the background (e.g. white)

So simple! Never thought about doing that. Now of course that only works on text on images and with coloured backgrounds you would need to make sure it matches. So not quiet as straight forward but definitely something I will have to think about if this need ever arrises! 

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5 hours ago, carl123 said:

the same color of the background

The problem is the text on a colored background with a gradient - standard text, and text with slimming stroke.
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Instead of a slimming line, however, you can use a group with fx-Outline, in which Blend Mode is set to Overlay with a gray color.
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