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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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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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).

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[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 4 points 4 days ago

any with a dotted zero, extra points for italic.

[–] heydamianc@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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.

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[–] fool@programming.dev 2 points 4 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*"

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I like Delugia for any monospace needs. It's a nerdfont, and it's nicely readable without looking too chunky.

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[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Code new roman! It's so cosy, and readable. I am a sucker for fonts with the cursive styled 'a'

[–] valen@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago
[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 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.

[–] fool@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 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.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 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.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Whatever comes default with the current system.

[–] VanGoghsVan@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] fool@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ohh, that's what that 8bit-y font is called.

...wait. Why would you use 8bit as a system font???

🟨 preview: Fixedsys

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love Cartograph CF for the terminal and code editor. I like the handwriting-style italic variant, and it has programming ligatures. And of course I like the way the font looks.

There is an open-source font, Victor Mono, that also has a handwriting-style italic variant and programming ligatures. Otherwise its style is quite different.

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[–] Agosagror@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 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.

[–] Karmmah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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.

@SolarPunker I use Exo2 as desktop font and FantasqueSansMono in terminal.

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I mostly use an android, and the default font is Ideal Sans Light. On my system, Arial Nova, Courier Prime, Helvetica Neue, Ideal Sans Book and a few others are regulars.

Every once in a while I get this itch which ends up in getting a new favourite font.

[–] moe90@feddit.nl 0 points 4 days ago

Verdana, Tahoma and Source code pro is good for eyes

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