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
Inter for desktop and the nerd-font variant of JetBrainMono for Terminal.
Lol I re-discovered Inter about 10 minutes ago, I find it a little better than Noto Sans. (edit) I’m not really sure, maybe I’ve gotten too used to the Notos.
+1 for Inter. Kind of reminds me of San Francisco :)
🟨 preview: Inter
me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana
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.
U001 is new to me, so here’s a link for others to look it up.
The license is Aladdin which is kinda predates GPL but allows free usage if you aren’t shipping the font with your own competing paid software.
Whatever comes default with the current system.
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.
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
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.
I don’t get why there are so many fonts
Because anyone can design one.
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I use M+ Fonts for most of my stuff.
Anyone using Nimbus Sans?
It’s actually preinstalled in a lot of systems. You can check via
gnome-font-viewerorfind /usr/share/fonts -name "*Nimbus*"@SolarPunker I use Exo2 as desktop font and FantasqueSansMono in terminal.
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.
Iosevka
Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest
Hack nerd font is my go to for terminal use.
