I always end up with SF Pro Display for my desktop. For terminal I’m happy with several mentioned here.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest
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*"
any with a dotted zero, extra points for italic.
i want serifs. I use Go Mono for monospaced text. i've yet to find a good proportional slab serif font to match though.
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
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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.
I like Delugia for any monospace needs. It's a nerdfont, and it's nicely readable without looking too chunky.
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Code new roman! It's so cosy, and readable. I am a sucker for fonts with the cursive styled 'a'
Whatever comes default with the current system.
Fixedsys
Ohh, that's what that 8bit-y font is called.
...wait. Why would you use 8bit as a system font???
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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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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.
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.
Verdana, Tahoma and Source code pro is good for eyes