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Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?
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For real, a good font.
IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono everywhere!
I don't think I've ever seen such a hard sell for a font.
This is the best font IMO. I used to use source code pro, but I switched to Plex a few years ago and it's all I want to use now.
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Iβm a JetBrains Mono fan. And whatever font I use has GOTTA have ligatures. I love ligatures.
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I really like Hack for monospace.
I am a big hack fan, I just don't like to tell people as it's a stupid name.
I use Fira Code Retina. I like that it is not too light, not too bold. I'm also partial to Cascadia Code and DejaVu Mono.
For the GUI, I use Adwaita Sans in both my GNOME and XFCE computers.
Fira Code is seriously awesome. I love how it is delightfully quirky. Not too much, just enough to give it plenty of character without becoming weird, annoying, or hard to read.
I also really like how it is more wide than most. If I'm supposed to finish all my lines at 80 characters there's no point in using something that condensed.
Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.
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Yeah, Fira Code gang!
Fira Code is my answer as well! I'll use others for some variety, but it's the favorite I always go back to.
Yep, been using Fira Code for years and I love it.
spends all day comparing fonts, instead of working
Damn you, Lemmy!!!!!
Yes, it's fun and my brain can convince itself that it's productive too. How can I work if I don't have the perfect programming font?
Along the same lines as your link - I really enjoyed playing out this font tournament, and found a few new ones I like - https://www.codingfont.com/
Ah, great link! Thanks! I also decided to try out a new font! π
Hell yeah! The Ubuntu mono is really easy to read, and there aren't that many sans-serif fonts that differentiate l and I well.
i have been using Ubuntu Fonts for the past years and now every other font is ugly
like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners?
ubuntu font for comparison:
like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners?
Not a font guy, but isn't it just mimicking how humans use strokes to write?
It looks nicer, and it's easier to read for me tbh.
I hate the Ubuntu font soooooo much
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Inconsolata LGC with nerd-fonts. I edit all my text and code in Helix, a TUI editor, and having proper support for Cyrillic and Greek is important for me. Also, I like how it looks.
The default font.
Sarasa Gothic + Iosevka for just about everything
I used to use the Ubuntu Font until I found the glory of Recursive.
Knock knock. Do you have a moment to talk about Recursive font? What about the weighted Recursive Duotone Nerd Font that makes bold and commented sections casual font?
I think I'm using Iosevka in the terminal at the moment, although it's maybe a bit too narrow for my tastes. For GUI I use San Francisco Pro (Apple font)
Edit: now trying Plex Mono in the terminal and I like it. It feels more like a "normal" font.
Terminus TTF in i3/sway
Gotta be unifont for me. Love those crispy pixels, and it manages to do monospace without being fugly as hell.
Call me crazy, but I usually like to install Apple's San Francisco Pro Display font
Edit: For GTK and Qt apps obviously, not for the terminal. I prefer JetBrains Mono there.
Crazy
I tried using the Hyperlegible family systemwide but found the 0 glyph too distracting outside of terminal/code cases. As a terminal font, it's perfection.
I'm constantly switching back and forth between Hack and Fira Code.
Open dyslexic or Adys for my broken head
I've recently fallen in love the Liberation fonts. For some reason I would always scroll past them in font lists and I don't know why. I guess I just saw Liberation Serif as a Times New Roman knockoff and dismissed them all because of that, when they're so much more.
I've applied them across the board (including websites) and wow.. I was straining my eyes for so long thinking my vision was going, when it turns out it was just bad hinting and kerning all along.
Ubuntu and Adwaita fonts are my favorite
Noto Sans
That's actually a really good font
anybody with 6x13 and tahoma :p
For terminal I currently use JetBrains Mono. I also used Fira Code and Source Code Pro in the past.
In GUI apps I use Inter right now. Previously used Roboto for a long time.
In my terminal and 99% of what I write? IBM Courier 12. I grew up with a Selectric, moved to use WordPerfect (with the white text on blue background), and still just stick with it. I will tolerate Courier New 12. I get very ticked at Liberation Mono because it's almost okay.
Everything not monospace is some variety of Helvetica.
Topaz-NG says hello
Go Mono.
if anyone has other recommendations for slab serif monospaced vector fonts i'm all ears.
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