[Tex/LaTex] bold a defined color

Question

Here is one of my custom colors that is "light blue". Sometimes it comes up very skinny on the text

\definecolor{lb}{RGB}{44, 139, 183}

Is there an easier way to bold or thicken the font of a \definecolor such that I don't have to manually change every \textcolor{lb}{}to \textcolor{lb}{\textbf{text goes here}}?

Answer 1

By "bolding" the color of some text, I assume you mean to give the text thicker strokes but without switching to bold-extended type.

If this assumption is correct, the following solution may be of interest to you.

Note that the bold colored parts have (almost) the same widths that the regular-weight colored parts have.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{lb}{RGB}{44, 139, 183}
\newcommand\cl[2]{\textcolor{#1}{#2}}
\newcommand\bcl[2]{\textcolor{#1}{{\fontseries{b}\selectfont #2}}}

\begin{document}
\cl{lb}{Hello World.}

\bcl{lb}{Hello World.}

Hello World.

\cl{red}{Good bye.}

\bcl{red}{Good bye.}
\end{document}