It seems the option to disable bold text was removed in xfce4-terminal 0.8.7: - Add "Bold is bright" option; remove "Allow bold text" option (VTE 0.51.3) I liked that option, as bold text can be very disruptive and look quite bad or break semigraphics in some programs and fonts. Can we get that back? Tthe option could make bold text look brighter, but not necessarily bold...
Igor referenced this bugreport in commit efaa91569a754ee321d4ec2b54555308f4c45f46 Restore "Allow bold text" option https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/commit?id=efaa91569a754ee321d4ec2b54555308f4c45f46
Hi, and thanks for the report! I think I just blindly followed GTK devs who said this functionality was going to be declared deprecated or removed (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762247). But, since it's still there, I've restored the "Allow bold text" option.
Well, this is indeed most likely _going to_ be deprecated and removed, but that's probably still in the quite distant future :) We're also just about to remove the faux bold feature (where if a suitable bold counterpart of the font cannot be found, the base font is printed twice over each other, with a 1px horizontal offset) for vte-0.54, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756010. Miguel's report on bad look or broken semigraphics _could_ be caused by this faux bold, we'd need to check the exact font settings to tell for sure.
Thanks for the update, Egmont!