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What fonts are you currently using on your system? Which do you think is best for the terminal or for your desktop environment?

(updates) Ok I think I'm a fan of Ubuntu nerd fonts right now

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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

U001 is my main system font as a clone of Univers. Monospace is Berkeley Mono—it might be paid/proprietary but boy does it look nice & was an upgrade from several years with Iosevka. JuliaMono is its fallback though since I use Unicode with frequency & Berkeley doesn’t cover all the symbols I use.

The important part is if you care anything about your fonts, you won’t destroy them by patching in that uncurated hodgepodge called “Nerd Fonts” clobbering used symbols or the wrought-with-false-positive “coding ligatures” which is not how ligatures are supposed to be used but programmers refuse to demand Unicode support in their languages to fix the problem.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

U001 is new to me, so here's a link for others to look it up.

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/u001

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

The license is Aladdin which is kinda predates GPL but allows free usage if you aren’t shipping the font with your own competing paid software.

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