I'm creating some text with Verdana currently there are four lines of text but the first line of text is a much bigger font size (it needs to be much more prominent), I've been playing around with changing the font size, and trying bold(which from what I understand is frowned upon by true font lovers), is there anyway to make the text a little thicker? or this there another quite similar font which is thicker?

edit: forgot to mention, using photoshop's bold makes it too thick which is why I have turned to you guys...