For a long time, I’ve just put on DejaVu fonts and been done with it. Generally good enough Unicode coverage for me. But I know it’s been years since DejaVu’s been updated, and I wonder what’s very common today.
[As for the terminal, I’m guessing it’s usually still the standard fixed Unicode fonts?]
I’m a sucker for jetbrains Mono when I need a monospaced font. It just looks nice to me.
The ligatures are chef’s kiss
Ubuntu / Ubuntu Mono are my favorites.
I use Fedora, but I still install Ubuntu font because I prefer it lol
I usually install noto-fonts
My EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.
All. Of. Them.
I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I’m afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.
Iosevka
I use the entire Apple’s SF suite (including New York)
Do you use the ttf/off version? I just tried to install them in KDE (off some sketchy git repo) but they look really wonky as a UI don’t.
Scratch that, you can theoretically download the fonts from Apple, it comes with OTF/TTF embedded within their
.dmg. Not advocating for any breach of licensing terms.
I generally install MS Office Fonts, some Adobe Fonts and then Fira Code Nerd Font too.
Ubuntu fonts works pretty good for me as a general UI font tbh. In text editors I prefer mononoki over monospace, it’s a bit prettier IMO, although in terminal I use terminus because pixel fonts are cool.
Dejavu, Liberation, & Noto are all pretty common.
Liberation
IS THE BEST for LibreOffice… AAAA
I’m a fan of the Go fonts for terminals.
Heck yes! I like to read in my terminal, and the go fonts are one of the best monospaced serif fonts I’ve found for the purpose
I use fantasque for my monospace, fira sans for my work horse ui font, and Garamond for my “someone wants to display serifs for some reason”
I like fira code w/ nerd fonts. The ligatures are nice for coding.
The f and t crossers being at different levels breaks my concentration when I’m reading code. I prefer comic mono and fantasque for this reason, but fira code is exceptionally well thought out
I see that as a positive feature - I like every character to be clearly distinct and it helps me to resume reading when my concentration is broken.
Not common, perhaps, but I like to download Atkinson Hyperlegible.
My #1 choice, although I don’t like the q, i or a. Still feels more airy than IBM Plex (my #2 choice).
I have a weird selection- Jetbrains Mono with Monocraft and the bold Minecraft font. Jetbrains Mono is for everything except discord. Monocraft with Minecraft Bold is for Discord which i have IRCified with a custom Vencord theme.
Usually I just use whatever fonts are default on the DE I happen to be using at the time, right now that’d be GNOME so I believe its Cantarell? I don’t generally customize my normal (non-monospace) fonts because I can never find one that looks good everywhere. I like Google’s “Product Sans” font for example, but it is definitely not one you want to use everywhere. Yet oddly enough on my Pixel, I believe Product Sans is the default unless an app explicitly changes it, and it looks good everywhere there. Or maybe I’ve just never given changing the default enough time to adjust to it, who knows.
The monospace font that I use is Comic Code, it sounds silly I know (I was skeptical at first too) - but it looks really nice in both my terminal and IntelliJ. Something about the font renderer that is used by default (I can’t think of the name for some reason, FreeType maybe?) makes it look really nice and sharp. On Windows, it looks too thin, and on macOS it looks too thick - Linux is truly the “golidlocks” for this font it seems.
But, the Intel One Mono font looks nice too.
If you like Comic Code you may also enjoy Fantasque Sans Mono. It has a lot of character and feels comfortable to read.
Oh that font looks awesome! I’ll definitely be downloading this and giving it a try, thank you!
Edit: I need to remember how to use FontPatcher to manually patch the “non-curly K” variant, its been forever since I did this process 😅
There’s a link to the non-loop k ttf on the downloads page. I use that variant too; I find the looped k a bit too over the top lol
Right, my apologies I meant to clarify that further - I meant that I needed to use FontPatcher to make it a “nerd font”, so that it has some extra glyphs for various TUIs that utilize them! Somehow I missed that in my original edit, whoops!
Hack Nerd Font Mono and Noto Sans for me.
