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submitted 1 year ago by mill@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

For a long time, I’ve just put on DejaVu fonts and been done with it. Generally good enough Unicode coverage for me. But I know it’s been years since DejaVu’s been updated, and I wonder what’s very common today.

[As for the terminal, I’m guessing it’s usually still the standard fixed Unicode fonts?]

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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 year ago

Dejavu, Liberation, & Noto are all pretty common.

[-] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago

Liberation

IS THE BEST for LibreOffice... AAAA

[-] dbx12@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

I'm a sucker for jetbrains Mono when I need a monospaced font. It just looks nice to me.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The ligatures are chef's kiss

[-] callyral@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I usually install noto-fonts

My EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.

All. Of. Them.

I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I'm afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I LOVE FIRA CODE (NERD PATCHED)!!!!

[-] winety@communick.news 13 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu uses their own font family. I think it’s one of the only distributions with its own custom font, but I might be wrong. The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto font family, which many distributions switched to as default. But it mostly depends on the DE — Gnome uses the Cantarell font, KDE uses the aforementioned Noto font.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 13 points 1 year ago

The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto

Well it's pretty much the entire point of Noto after all, so it's probably hard to beat, from the website:

The name is also short for "no tofu", as the project aims to eliminate 'tofu': blank rectangles shown when no font is available for your text.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

I like fira code w/ nerd fonts. The ligatures are nice for coding.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The f and t crossers being at different levels breaks my concentration when I'm reading code. I prefer comic mono and fantasque for this reason, but fira code is exceptionally well thought out

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I see that as a positive feature - I like every character to be clearly distinct and it helps me to resume reading when my concentration is broken.

[-] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Can't speak to how common they are, but I do like the Nerd Fonts, and particularly MesloLGS NF 10pt for my monospaced font. Very handy for Zsh Powerline10k and neovim.

[-] bear@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

Inter for GUI, Iosevka for terminal. Dejavu is my fallback option for some systems.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I enjoy Fira Sans and Fira Mono. Looks professional without being extraordinarily boring.

[-] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I use open dyslexia as I have dyslexia. Its very nice!

[-] victron@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, I think I need to google that one, not that I have dislexia, just out of curiosity.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

It's a font designed to ease letter recognition.

It can be useful for people who don't have dislexia too, for example for subtitles.

[-] sapo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

How do you like Atkinson Hyperlegible?? I've heard good things about it from visually impaired people, but I'm not clear on how much it helps with dyslexia.

[-] yum13241@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hack Nerd Font Mono and Noto Sans for me.

[-] bloopernova@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I have settled on mplus code, I really like its condensed look.

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 6 points 1 year ago

Usually I just use whatever fonts are default on the DE I happen to be using at the time, right now that'd be GNOME so I believe its Cantarell? I don't generally customize my normal (non-monospace) fonts because I can never find one that looks good everywhere. I like Google's "Product Sans" font for example, but it is definitely not one you want to use everywhere. Yet oddly enough on my Pixel, I believe Product Sans is the default unless an app explicitly changes it, and it looks good everywhere there. Or maybe I've just never given changing the default enough time to adjust to it, who knows.

The monospace font that I use is Comic Code, it sounds silly I know (I was skeptical at first too) - but it looks really nice in both my terminal and IntelliJ. Something about the font renderer that is used by default (I can't think of the name for some reason, FreeType maybe?) makes it look really nice and sharp. On Windows, it looks too thin, and on macOS it looks too thick - Linux is truly the "golidlocks" for this font it seems.

But, the Intel One Mono font looks nice too.

[-] aport@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

If you like Comic Code you may also enjoy Fantasque Sans Mono. It has a lot of character and feels comfortable to read.

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm a fan of the Go fonts for terminals.

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I use noto fonts for web browsing and general GUI stuff and I use Cascadia Code in the terminal

[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu fonts works pretty good for me as a general UI font tbh. In text editors I prefer mononoki over monospace, it's a bit prettier IMO, although in terminal I use terminus because pixel fonts are cool.

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's that common, but if you're looking for good fonts, I really like IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono. Has good Unicode coverage as well and is "open source" (or whatever it's called for fonts).

I use these too, and Fira Code and Hack for coding.

[-] Sina@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

it's Jetbrains where it's at..

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[-] 257m@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been using JetBrains Mono Nerd Font for my terminal as of late and Inter for my GUI's.

[-] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 2 points 1 year ago

JetBrains Mono NF masterrace represents!

Honestly if I have to choose only one mono font family to use for the rest of my natural life, JetBrains Mono without a shred of a doubt.

[-] nothendev@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I have a weird selection- Jetbrains Mono with Monocraft and the bold Minecraft font. Jetbrains Mono is for everything except discord. Monocraft with Minecraft Bold is for Discord which i have IRCified with a custom Vencord theme.

[-] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

I generally install MS Office Fonts, some Adobe Fonts and then Fira Code Nerd Font too.

[-] the_crab_man@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I like Iosevka for programming and terminal.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu / Ubuntu Mono are my favorites.

I use Fedora, but I still install Ubuntu font because I prefer it lol

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use the entire Apple's SF suite (including New York)

[-] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Do you use the ttf/off version? I just tried to install them in KDE (off some sketchy git repo) but they look really wonky as a UI don’t.

[-] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Scratch that, you can theoretically download the fonts from Apple, it comes with OTF/TTF embedded within their .dmg. Not advocating for any breach of licensing terms.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Lexend fonts, they increase reading speed, offer more precise size control, and have the extra perk of being more accessible for differently abled readers. I like to familiarize myself with "accessible" design, the more we get used to it as normal the better our world can get.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I use fantasque for my monospace, fira sans for my work horse ui font, and Garamond for my "someone wants to display serifs for some reason"

[-] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My preference for a few years have been a combination if IBM Plex Sans for most stuff and Iosevka for monospace. They both look amazing! Iosevka might look a bit weird when first seeing it but I can't really use anything else these days. However, Fira Code is a really good monospace font as well.

[-] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

+1 Iosevka is awsome!

[-] 3arn0wl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not common, perhaps, but I like to download Atkinson Hyperlegible.

[-] 3laws@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My #1 choice, although I don't like the q, i or a. Still feels more airy than IBM Plex (my #2 choice).

[-] AJCxZ0@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Lots of great fonts and families mentioned so far in this thread, but no-one has mentioned my current and long-time favourite for almost all environments and applications: Input.

$ echo sans serif monospace | xargs -n 1 fc-match
InputSansCondensed-Regular.ttf: "Input Sans Condensed" "Regular"
InputSerifCondensed-Regular.ttf: "Input Serif Condensed" "Regular"
InputMono-Regular.ttf: "Input Mono" "Regular"

[-] Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

For sans and serif font, Noto Sans and Noto Serif.

[-] communist@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I use noto sans medium everywhere. (and the mono version for the terminal ofc)

[-] iampivot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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