2w ago

Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?

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I’m a JetBrains Mono fan. And whatever font I use has GOTTA have ligatures. I love ligatures.
- 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.
  
  I’m the same way, it just feels right.

Hell yeah! The Ubuntu mono is really easy to read, and there aren't that many sans-serif fonts that differentiate l and I well.

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.
- Ooo, I might have to put this up against Fira Code at work tomorrow.

Inconsolata LGC with nerd-fonts. I edit all my text and code in Helix, a TUI editor, and having proper support for Cyrillic and Greek is important for me. Also, I like how it looks.

Gotta be unifont for me. Love those crispy pixels, and it manages to do monospace without being fugly as hell.
- Unifont is great, though I find Terminus and Proggyfonts more legible and nicer looking, but I think that Unifont probably has more character coverage which might be relevant if you insane like me and set a bitmap font everywhere.

I used to use the Ubuntu Font until I found the glory of Recursive.
Knock knock. Do you have a moment to talk about Recursive font? What about the weighted Recursive Duotone Nerd Font that makes bold and commented sections casual font?

Terminus TTF in i3/sway
- I compile Terminus otb my self with centered * and ~ patch and the curved l patch, crisp as reference block used to calibrate calipers.

I think I'm using Iosevka in the terminal at the moment, although it's maybe a bit too narrow for my tastes. For GUI I use San Francisco Pro (Apple font)
Edit: now trying Plex Mono in the terminal and I like it. It feels more like a "normal" font.

I've recently fallen in love the Liberation fonts. For some reason I would always scroll past them in font lists and I don't know why. I guess I just saw Liberation Serif as a Times New Roman knockoff and dismissed them all because of that, when they're so much more.
I've applied them across the board (including websites) and wow.. I was straining my eyes for so long thinking my vision was going, when it turns out it was just bad hinting and kerning all along.

Open dyslexic or Adys for my broken head
- I read a heap of peer review articles on thst. They seemed to suggest a form without all the P when ads (sans?) Is just as good. Along woth mono space and larger font size.
  Helvetica or Ariel are just as good. In use Adobe Ember or whatever its called.
  YMMV

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
- Crazy
- Utter insanity

DejaVu Sans Mono. Open source, good Unicode support, clear distinctions between characters ("iI1oO0").

Go Mono.
if anyone has other recommendations for slab serif monospaced vector fonts i'm all ears.

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

For my terminal I use roboto mono nerd fonts.
- Caskaydia Cove for me. Because "Cascadia" is a reserved font name in Windows for some reason.

For terminal I currently use JetBrains Mono. I also used Fira Code and Source Code Pro in the past.
In GUI apps I use Inter right now. Previously used Roboto for a long time.

In my terminal and 99% of what I write? IBM Courier 12. I grew up with a Selectric, moved to use WordPerfect (with the white text on blue background), and still just stick with it. I will tolerate Courier New 12. I get very ticked at Liberation Mono because it's almost okay.
Everything not monospace is some variety of Helvetica.

Default font: Inter Monospaced font: JetBrains Mono NL (I don't like ligatures, ask me if you want elaboration)

I once did comic sans for a while because I am not highly typographically sensitive and wanted to mess about, but I usually like a mono serif typeface for the terminal, most recently Noto.