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

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    25·
    11 days ago

    Inter for desktop and the nerd-font variant of JetBrainMono for Terminal.

    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      11 days ago

      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.

  • whizzlezoop@feddit.org
    161·
    11 days ago

    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

    • thayerw@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      72·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • poinck@lemm.ee
      4·
      10 days 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.

    • Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 days 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.

    • fool@programming.dev
      4·
      10 days ago

      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

    • fool@programming.dev
      6·
      10 days ago

      Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o

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

      🟨 preview: Protomolecule

      • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        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.

  • cravl@slrpnk.net
    6·
    10 days ago

    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"
  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    I’ve been using Source Code Pro for a while now. Might not be the best, but it does the job for me.

  • freeman@feddit.org
    5·
    11 days ago

    Lexend Deca for me. A mix of a dyslexoc-font, Arial and a bit of the roundness of Comic Sans. (Sorry, probably bad examples, am no font nerd)

    • fool@programming.dev
      3·
      10 days ago

      I read through the website, and it feels… odd.

      Is this font’s only purpose to be variable-width tunable?

      The website has this interesting showcase:

      “[Student fluency] is measured in Words Correct Per Minute… Each student read out loud a passage set in a control of Times New Roman, then four of the Lexend Series — Deca, Exa, Giga, and Mega.”

      They even give example text for the viewer in both fonts. Of course, Times New Roman was blown out of the water, and the viewer can feel it.

      But… this is apples to oranges. Of course the viewer can feel it, Times New Roman is a freakin’ serif, and there are a quinquagintillion sans serifs for small digital text, for good reason! Then what does this font have over other sans fonts? I couldn’t find the “Stanford study” or any other comparisons, but if I were to surmise a guess:

      “Variable font technology allows for continuous selection of the Lexend Series to find the specific setting for an individual student.”

      It’s to be able to adapt for a student reader’s preferences.

      I dunno, the site’s framing of “changing the way the world reads” feels disingenuous – it’s a nice sans tho.

      • freeman@feddit.org
        2·
        9 days ago

        Ok, I never dug so deep, I just really like the design, I did not know (or forgot) their ambicious/overblown claims

  • villainy@lemmy.world
    61·
    11 days ago

    For terminal/editor I went through CodingFont and ended up on Noto Sans Mono. Before that I used Source Code Pro for years. Both patched for nerd fonts, obviously.

    • CCRhode@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 days ago

      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.