This reminds me of people who used Computer Modern to make it look like they had written their paper using LaTeX to get better marks. It usually worked
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Jetbrains Mono Nerd Font!!!
For real, a good font.
I tried using the Hyperlegible family systemwide but found the 0 glyph too distracting outside of terminal/code cases. As a terminal font, it's perfection.
Ooo, I might have to put this up against Fira Code at work tomorrow.
IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono everywhere!
I don't think I've ever seen such a hard sell for a font.
This is the best font IMO. I used to use source code pro, but I switched to Plex a few years ago and it's all I want to use now.
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The default font.
Iβm a JetBrains Mono fan. And whatever font I use has GOTTA have ligatures. I love ligatures.
Yeah when I went down a terminal config rabbit hole I landed on JetBrains Mono with all the nerd font symbols. Canβt really provide a particular reason I like it over many other fonts, but I just do.
Iβm the same way, it just feels right.
I use 0xProto because it looks nice
Terminus, always, bitmap supremacy
I use Fira Code Retina. I like that it is not too light, not too bold. I'm also partial to Cascadia Code and DejaVu Mono.
For the GUI, I use Adwaita Sans in both my GNOME and XFCE computers.
Fira Code is seriously awesome. I love how it is delightfully quirky. Not too much, just enough to give it plenty of character without becoming weird, annoying, or hard to read.
I also really like how it is more wide than most. If I'm supposed to finish all my lines at 80 characters there's no point in using something that condensed.
Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.
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Yeah, Fira Code gang!
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Open dyslexic or Adys for my broken head
I read a heap of peer review articles on thst. They seemed to suggest a form without all the P when ads (sans?) Is just as good. Along woth mono space and larger font size.
Helvetica or Ariel are just as good. In use Adobe Ember or whatever its called.
YMMV
Call me crazy, but I usually like to install Apple's San Francisco Pro Display font
Edit: For Qt and GTK apps obviously, not for the terminal. I prefer JetBrains Mono there.
Another edit: Apparently there also a monospaced version of SF Pro. Just realized that it's the default in the macOS Terminal app. There's even a version with ligatures and Nerd Font symbols: https://github.com/shaunsingh/SFMono-Nerd-Font-Ligaturized
Crazy
Utter insanity
i have been using Ubuntu Fonts for the past years and now every other font is ugly
like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners?
ubuntu font for comparison:
like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners?
Not a font guy, but isn't it just mimicking how humans use strokes to write?
It looks nicer, and it's easier to read for me tbh.
human detected π§π€¨
EXTERMINATE?
yeah it mimics how humans write on paper, but i'm on a computer
I really like Hack for monospace.
I am a big hack fan, I just don't like to tell people as it's a stupid name.
KDE Plasma Hack masterrace
What makes it stupid? At least it's relevant instead of random nonsense names like "noto" "callenda" "amiri" etc (apologies if all these names have rich etymologies)
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I've recently fallen in love the Liberation fonts. For some reason I would always scroll past them in font lists and I don't know why. I guess I just saw Liberation Serif as a Times New Roman knockoff and dismissed them all because of that, when they're so much more.
I've applied them across the board (including websites) and wow.. I was straining my eyes for so long thinking my vision was going, when it turns out it was just bad hinting and kerning all along.
spends all day comparing fonts, instead of working
Damn you, Lemmy!!!!!
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Inconsolata LGC with nerd-fonts. I edit all my text and code in Helix, a TUI editor, and having proper support for Cyrillic and Greek is important for me. Also, I like how it looks.
DejaVu Sans Mono. Open source, good Unicode support, clear distinctions between characters ("iI1oO0").
Hell yeah! The Ubuntu mono is really easy to read, and there aren't that many sans-serif fonts that differentiate l and I well.
Noto Sans
I hate the Ubuntu font soooooo much
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Go Mono.
if anyone has other recommendations for slab serif monospaced vector fonts i'm all ears.
Ubuntu and Adwaita fonts are my favorite
Sarasa Gothic + Iosevka for just about everything
Default font: Inter Monospaced font: JetBrains Mono NL (I don't like ligatures, ask me if you want elaboration)
Gotta be unifont for me. Love those crispy pixels, and it manages to do monospace without being fugly as hell.
Unifont is great, though I find Terminus and Proggyfonts more legible and nicer looking, but I think that Unifont probably has more character coverage which might be relevant if you insane like me and set a bitmap font everywhere.
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