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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Hack Nerd Font Mono and Noto Sans for me.
I have settled on mplus code, I really like its condensed look.
I use noto fonts for web browsing and general GUI stuff and I use Cascadia Code in the terminal
I enjoy Fira Sans and Fira Mono. Looks professional without being extraordinarily boring.
I’ve been using JetBrains Mono Nerd Font for my terminal as of late and Inter for my GUI’s.
JetBrains Mono NF masterrace represents!
Honestly if I have to choose only one mono font family to use for the rest of my natural life, JetBrains Mono without a shred of a doubt.
it’s Jetbrains where it’s at…
