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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Poppins, RobotoMono, Comfortaa and OpenDyslexic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Pusab (I'm a gd player)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Whatever the default font is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

VictorMono, has a cool cursive, mono spaced font.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I don't have a favorite system font, am I meant to? I did try to play with fonts at one point but the process of finding fonts and then figuring out how to install them was a bit much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don’t have a reason to move away from the Fedora defaults except for monospaced fonts.

Terminal wise, terminus is my default. It’s so clean, and it looks good without anti-aliasing.

Roboto Mono is my current preference for monospaced fonts.

Adobe Source Code Pro and JetBrains Mono are good alternatives as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Hack nerd font is my go to for terminal use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I use M+ Fonts for most of my stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I know that this will anger some people, but I just use the defaults and I don't get why there are so many fonts, since they don't seem that much different to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I don't get why there are so many fonts

Because anyone can design one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I’m design nerd and definitely appreciate the variety but you don’t gotta be. The defaults are generally pretty good (if not great) with any major OS these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Anyone using Nimbus Sans?

It's actually preinstalled in a lot of systems. You can check via
gnome-font-viewer or find /usr/share/fonts -name "*Nimbus*"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I switched to Commit Mono for Terminal not too long ago but I really like it. Otherwise I use Cantarell but only because it is default and I never felt the need to change it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i want serifs. I use Go Mono for monospaced text. i've yet to find a good proportional slab serif font to match though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

By proportional slab serif do you mean unmonospacing the monospace like what Ubuntu does? I guess that's why Go Proportional wouldn't work being a sans serif

🟨 Preview: Go Mono

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

yeah just using the same characters but "squished" doesn't work since the serifs take up the character space. you need a font designed as proportional. slab serif just means that the serifs are squared rather than pointed like on Times.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I always use Dejavu sans mono for terminal and programming too. I think its the best in terms of readability where indentation is important

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I always end up with SF Pro Display for my desktop. For terminal I’m happy with several mentioned here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There are a lot of San Francisco fonts. Have you tried all of them? :p

🟨 preview: SF Pro display

::: spoiler 🟨 preview: Other SF fonts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Verdana, Tahoma and Source code pro is good for eyes

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