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

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o

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

      🟨 preview: Protomolecule

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        2 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.

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    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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    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"
    
    
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    3 days ago

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

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      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.

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      Ohh, that’s what that 8bit-y font is called.

      …wait. Why would you use 8bit as a system font???

      🟨 preview: Fixedsys