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?]
Dejavu, Liberation, & Noto are all pretty common.
Liberation
IS THE BEST for LibreOffice… AAAA
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
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.
I LOVE FIRA CODE (NERD PATCHED)!!!
Ubuntu uses their own font family. I think it’s one of the only distributions with its own custom font, but I might be wrong. The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto font family, which many distributions switched to as default. But it mostly depends on the DE — Gnome uses the Cantarell font, KDE uses the aforementioned Noto font.
The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto
Well it’s pretty much the entire point of Noto after all, so it’s probably hard to beat, from the website:
The name is also short for “no tofu”, as the project aims to eliminate ‘tofu’: blank rectangles shown when no font is available for your text.
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.
Can’t speak to how common they are, but I do like the Nerd Fonts, and particularly MesloLGS NF 10pt for my monospaced font. Very handy for Zsh Powerline10k and neovim.
I enjoy Fira Sans and Fira Mono. Looks professional without being extraordinarily boring.
I use open dyslexia as I have dyslexia. Its very nice!
How do you like Atkinson Hyperlegible?? I’ve heard good things about it from visually impaired people, but I’m not clear on how much it helps with dyslexia.
Ok, I think I need to google that one, not that I have dislexia, just out of curiosity.
It’s a font designed to ease letter recognition.
It can be useful for people who don’t have dislexia too, for example for subtitles.
Hack Nerd Font Mono and Noto Sans for me.
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!
I have settled on mplus code, I really like its condensed look.
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.
I don’t think it’s that common, but if you’re looking for good fonts, I really like IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono. Has good Unicode coverage as well and is “open source” (or whatever it’s called for fonts).
I use these too, and Fira Code and Hack for coding.
