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VictorMono, has a cool cursive, mono spaced font.
Ubuntu
For desktop, I've liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.
For terminal, I used Iosevka's customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:
[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
family = "Iosevka Firesque"
spacing = "term"
serifs = "sans"
noCvSs = true
exportGlyphNames = false
[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
inherits = "ss05"
[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
g = "single-storey-serifed"
long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
brace = "straight"
ampersand = "upper-open"
at = "threefold"
cent = "open"
Fira Sans / FiraGO by Mozilla, and the new SUSE font by SUSE.
Fira Code and Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font for monospace. For other uses, I'm usually good with whatever the system ships with.
Hack nerd font is my go to for terminal use.
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.
Inter for desktop and the nerd-font variant of JetBrainMono for Terminal.
+1 for Inter. Kind of reminds me of San Francisco :)
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Fantasque
Iosevka.
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.
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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.
Since basically forever I use DejaVu Sans for UI elements and DejaVu Mono for the terminal.
me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana
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Ubuntu font. Idk why but I like it.
I agree! Nice memories of hitting backspace in a Linux Mint terminal and hearing that weird-ass BWOUP sound.
I recommend Ubuntu Mono for Termux users. Look at this black-background beauty -- way better than the angly flat default
Please don't hate me but for desktop I use Segoe UI. After years of using it everything else looks just kinda off and cheap to me. Similar to when folder icons are not yellow
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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.
Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest
Protomolecule for that scifi feel
Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o
Scifi fonts remind me of old Rainmeter configurations. Wonder if Rainmeter ricing is still around
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Except the terminal and a few other places.
While it's very good looking, it's not extremely practical with no difference (almost) between lower case and upper case letters.
As a huge expanse fan, I'm glad someone brought this to life! (Shout-out for the space the nation podcast if you like nerds breaking down the episodes and need a good back catalog for the dark winter days)
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.
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.
I've been using Source Code Pro for a while now. Might not be the best, but it does the job for me.
me too, i use it for terminal as well
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