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Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?

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Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?

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Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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  • cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I’m a JetBrains Mono fan. And whatever font I use has GOTTA have ligatures. I love ligatures.

    • Arkhive (they/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yeah when I went down a terminal config rabbit hole I landed on JetBrains Mono with all the nerd font symbols. Can’t really provide a particular reason I like it over many other fonts, but I just do.

      • cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’m the same way, it just feels right.

  • Areldyb@lemmy.world
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    Hyperlegible Mono

    I tried using the Hyperlegible family systemwide but found the 0 glyph too distracting outside of terminal/code cases. As a terminal font, it’s perfection.

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    For real, a good font.

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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    I use 0xProto because it looks nice

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
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    I use Fira Code Retina. I like that it is not too light, not too bold. I’m also partial to Cascadia Code and DejaVu Mono.

    For the GUI, I use Adwaita Sans in both my GNOME and XFCE computers.

    • ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca
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      Yep, been using Fira Code for years and I love it.

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Fira Code is seriously awesome. I love how it is delightfully quirky. Not too much, just enough to give it plenty of character without becoming weird, annoying, or hard to read.

      I also really like how it is more wide than most. If I’m supposed to finish all my lines at 80 characters there’s no point in using something that condensed.

      Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.

      • bazzett@lemmy.world
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        Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.

        Well, there’s Fira Sans, but I don’t know if it’s what you want. I like to use it for things like slides and titles, and I’ve used it as a GUI typography for some time.

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Call me crazy, but I usually like to install Apple’s San Francisco Pro Display font

    Edit: For Qt and GTK apps obviously, not for the terminal. I prefer JetBrains Mono there.

    Another edit: Apparently there also a monospaced version of SF Pro. Just realized that it’s the default in the macOS Terminal app. There’s even a version with ligatures and Nerd Font symbols: https://github.com/shaunsingh/SFMono-Nerd-Font-Ligaturized

  • tfm@europe.pub
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    I hate the Ubuntu font soooooo much

  • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world
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    This reminds me of people who used Computer Modern to make it look like they had written their paper using LaTeX to get better marks. It usually worked

  • dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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    IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono everywhere!

    • hansolo@lemm.ee
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      I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a hard sell for a font.

    • the_weez@midwest.social
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      This is the best font IMO. I used to use source code pro, but I switched to Plex a few years ago and it’s all I want to use now.

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        I use the nerdfont variant for my terminal, it works rather well.

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          I was not familiar with that page. I love this in the nerdiest way possible.

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      Any is it not variable?

      • dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Sans has a variable variant and the other two do not, I think.

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    i have been using Ubuntu Fonts for the past years and now every other font is ugly

    like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners? ugly font

    ubuntu font for comparison: beautiful font

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      like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners?

      Not a font guy, but isn’t it just mimicking how humans use strokes to write?

      It looks nicer, and it’s easier to read for me tbh.

      • SitD@lemy.lol
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        human detected 🧐🤨

        • Shareni@programming.dev
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          EXTERMINATE?

      • zitrone 🍋@lemmings.world
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        yeah it mimics how humans write on paper, but i’m on a computer

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    Gotta be unifont for me. Love those crispy pixels, and it manages to do monospace without being fugly as hell.

  • Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social
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    Iosevka, of course.

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    DejaVu Sans Mono. Open source, good Unicode support, clear distinctions between characters (“iI1oO0”).

  • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Terminus, always, bitmap supremacy

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    Not a font, but this.

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