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 :)

Nothing wrong with that! I prefer Inter for nearly all UIs these days, but I still think Segoe UI looks better than GNOME’s current default of Cantarell.

It is a well-designed system font. Say what you will about Microsoft but they do know how to make a good font or two.

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.

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.

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

me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana

I always use Dejavu sans mono for terminal and programming too. I think its the best in terms of readability where indentation is important

Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o

Scifi fonts remind me of old Rainmeter configurations. Wonder if Rainmeter ricing is still around

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)

https://github.com/ThinkDualBrain/Protomolecule

me too, i use it for terminal as well

I wish to put in a plug for Noto Sans Semicondensed for spreadsheets, although not generally for system-wide use.

I recommend it for my Tonto2 List Maker script, which uses a spreadsheet layout. Noto Sans Semicondensed has “tabular figures,” which means you can use it in tables to align digits and decimals with simple spaces and still have the look of a proportionally spaced font for text.

Noto Sans Semicondensed is available from Google, of course, but Linux Users will be more likely to install the fonts-noto-core package.

Interesting. What makes you use bitmaps as a system font?

Gohu:

I get it for TTYs. Though for TTYs nothing will take me away from Terminus :]

Dropping a link for others since it’s the first time I heard of it.

https://font.gohu.org/