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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by SolarPunker@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Personally, whatever is default.

I know that may sound weird, but I'm a huge fan of sane defaults that I don't even notice are there.

[-] Kena@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

SegoeUI, it’s damn good and well made

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Poppins, RobotoMono, Comfortaa and OpenDyslexic

[-] TROJANHEX@linux.community 1 points 2 days ago

Pusab (I'm a gd player)

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 days ago

Inter for desktop and the nerd-font variant of JetBrainMono for Terminal.

[-] fool@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

+1 for Inter. Kind of reminds me of San Francisco :)

🟨 preview: Inter

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[-] cravl@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago

For desktop, I've liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.

For terminal, I used Iosevka's customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:

[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
family = "Iosevka Firesque"
spacing = "term"
serifs = "sans"
noCvSs = true
exportGlyphNames = false

  [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
  inherits = "ss05"

    [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
    capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
    capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
    g = "single-storey-serifed"
    long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
    cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
    cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
    cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
    cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    brace = "straight"
    ampersand = "upper-open"
    at = "threefold"
    cent = "open"

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago
[-] poinck@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Same. I've compiled a custom variant of Iosevka for terminal and code, because I want to have some chars in a certain way, especially the 0 and the & for even better readability. I used to have Monoid for code and terminal, but it the pixel perfect size for 12pt was getting too small for me and my eyes are not getting any better. Iosevka looks better even after some hinting by the OS.

On the rest of the desktop UI I use B612, because it is very ledgible, I recently switch over from the hyperledible Atkinson font. Before that I had Gidole on the desktop. Very pleasing, but not that readable at same font size.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

I've been enjoying Fira Sans and Fira Mono for far too long: https://mozilla.github.io/Fira/

[-] whizzlezoop@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago

Please don't hate me but for desktop I use Segoe UI. After years of using it everything else looks just kinda off and cheap to me. Similar to when folder icons are not yellow

[-] thayerw@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Nothing wrong with that! I prefer Inter for nearly all UIs these days, but I still think Segoe UI looks better than GNOME's current default of Cantarell.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It is a well-designed system font. Say what you will about Microsoft but they do know how to make a good font or two.

[-] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 12 points 5 days ago
[-] LydiaChlamydia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Whatever the default font is

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

I've been using Fantasque sans mono for a bunch of years now.

[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago

Ubuntu font. Idk why but I like it.

[-] fool@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I agree! Nice memories of hitting backspace in a Linux Mint terminal and hearing that weird-ass BWOUP sound.

I recommend Ubuntu Mono for Termux users. Look at this black-background beauty -- way better than the angly flat default

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

Since basically forever I use DejaVu Sans for UI elements and DejaVu Mono for the terminal.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana

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[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Hack nerd font is my go to for terminal use.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

I find comic sans mono actually looks surprisingly nice for coding and terminal.

[-] 000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago
[-] guy@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

Protomolecule for that scifi feel

[-] fool@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o

Scifi fonts remind me of old Rainmeter configurations. Wonder if Rainmeter ricing is still around

🟨 preview: Protomolecule

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[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

As a huge expanse fan, I'm glad someone brought this to life! (Shout-out for the space the nation podcast if you like nerds breaking down the episodes and need a good back catalog for the dark winter days)

https://github.com/ThinkDualBrain/Protomolecule

[-] DeaDvey@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

VictorMono, has a cool cursive, mono spaced font.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 4 days ago

Fira Sans / FiraGO by Mozilla, and the new SUSE font by SUSE.

[-] foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 4 points 5 days ago

For sans-serif, I use Mona Sans. For monospace, I use Monaspace. I think it's a good-looking combination.

[-] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Fira Code and Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font for monospace. For other uses, I'm usually good with whatever the system ships with.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 6 points 5 days ago

I've been using Source Code Pro for a while now. Might not be the best, but it does the job for me.

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

me too, i use it for terminal as well

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago
[-] villainy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

For terminal/editor I went through CodingFont and ended up on Noto Sans Mono. Before that I used Source Code Pro for years. Both patched for nerd fonts, obviously.

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I use M+ Fonts for most of my stuff.

[-] freeman@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

Lexend Deca for me. A mix of a dyslexoc-font, Arial and a bit of the roundness of Comic Sans. (Sorry, probably bad examples, am no font nerd)

[-] fool@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

I read through the website, and it feels... odd.

Is this font's only purpose to be variable-width tunable?

The website has this interesting showcase:

"[Student fluency] is measured in Words Correct Per Minute... Each student read out loud a passage set in a control of Times New Roman, then four of the Lexend Series — Deca, Exa, Giga, and Mega."

They even give example text for the viewer in both fonts. Of course, Times New Roman was blown out of the water, and the viewer can feel it.

But... this is apples to oranges. Of course the viewer can feel it, Times New Roman is a freakin' serif, and there are a quinquagintillion sans serifs for small digital text, for good reason! Then what does this font have over other sans fonts? I couldn't find the "Stanford study" or any other comparisons, but if I were to surmise a guess:

"Variable font technology allows for continuous selection of the Lexend Series to find the specific setting for an individual student."

It's to be able to adapt for a student reader's preferences.

I dunno, the site's framing of "changing the way the world reads" feels disingenuous -- it's a nice sans tho.

[-] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Ok, I never dug so deep, I just really like the design, I did not know (or forgot) their ambicious/overblown claims

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Lato, League Spartan, League Gothic are my three most used fonts by a wide margin. Lato and its variety of weights for most things, League when I am doing design work and need a cleaner title or header.

Lately ive been weirdly taken with TT2020 Style G, which is an odd name for a no-name font that replicates an old imperfect typewriter. For whatever reason, switching my writing software to that (Manuscript) suddenly fired up my writing flow.

[-] 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.

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

Gohu Font Nerd is a nice small bitmap font I'm fond of. Only issue is the size for high DPI monitors, but the JetBrainsMono nerd font is a nice vector font that's easy on the eyes (quite stereotypical/cliché, but that's for a reason).

[-] fool@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Interesting. What makes you use bitmaps as a system font?

Gohu:

I get it for TTYs. Though for TTYs nothing will take me away from Terminus :]

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[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Dropping a link for others since it's the first time I heard of it.

https://font.gohu.org/

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