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

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 hours 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.

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours 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.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • RightEdofer@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 hours 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.

    • Jonny@lemmy.rimkus.itDeutsch
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      15 hours 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

  • fool@programming.dev
    2·
    12 hours 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*"

    • fool@programming.dev
      3·
      12 hours ago

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

      I recommend Ubuntu Mono for Termux users. Look at this black-background beauty

    • Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Iosevka fits very well with East Asian characters, if you need those.

      I find it narrower than I like otherwise, but I need Japanese characters often enough that I put up with it for my terminal.

    • poinck@lemm.ee
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      17 hours 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.