Basic fonts

Liberation fonts, Noto fonts, Deja Vu fonts and Nimbus fonts pretty much. Add in Cantarell too and you are set I would say. Those are the ones you should install for compatibility.

I always install Inter for UI and JetBrains Mono for terminal usage. I find they render way better than pretty much anything else.

Update: Discovered Geist and Geist Mono and they are amazing, I am going to replace Inter and JetBrains Mono from now on: github.com/vercel/geist-font

Comic neue, must have for all the important legal documents.

For me personally, it's Victor Mono and Iosevka. Victor Mono for desktop and Iosevka for VSCodium.

This isn't specific to Linux necessarily, but the best free fonts I like the most that I always install regardless of OS are:

• DejaVu (included by default in a lot of Linux distros but not in Windows)
• EB Garamond (a font intended to replicate Garamond but with the Open Font License)
• Inconsolata (a font intended to replicate Consolas but with the Open Font License)
• Noto (also included by default on a lot of Linuxes but not on Windows)
• Vollkorn

Computer Modern, the font of LaTeX

I commonly use the following font families:

Hack

Noto

Inter

Helvetica

Montserrat

Space Grotesk

Times New Roman

Atkinson Hyperlegible

Cormorant (Garamond)

I use Fira Sans and Fira Mono for everything.

I always install the Noto fonts for things like emojis and asian characters, extra fonts to cover the Cyrillic alphabet, and finally OnePlus's Slate font, which I fell in love with back in the days when I rocked a OnePlus 7 Pro.

Just started using the Inter Display fonts and IBM Plex Mono fonts for my GNOME desktop.

https://github.com/rsms/inter

https://github.com/IBM/plex

Both are packaged in Debian.

There is even a discussion about making Inter the default font for GNOME: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/issues/52

Libertinus Serif (much nicer Times New Roman-ish serif text font. Huge amount of glyphs, open source font license, great to read on display and on print)

Lato (Sans font which imo compliments Libertinus Serif really good. More for short texts, headlines etc. I wouldn't recommend it as a UI font. Also permissive font license.)

Mscorefonts.

Remind me to send a link, the only way to get them seems to be from Windows, pretty stupid. Calibri, Times, Cambria, damn Comic Sans, these.

Sofia Sans, JetBrains Mono/Iosevka/Fira Code, noto-fonts-emoji if you want emoji to work, maybe Atkinson Hyperlegible if that's your thing

Dejavu is the right font for me for both ebglush and arabic letters.

Noto for desktop apps. Inter is nice too. Roboto was a long time favorite of mine too.

Iosevka for monospace. Hack and Fira Code/Mono are great as well.

I just left the defaults

These are the ones I install on every system:

ttf-caladea 20200113-3

ttf-carlito 20230509-1

ttf-fira-code 6.2-2

ttf-liberation 2.1.5-1

ttf-linux-libertine-g 20120116-7

adobe-source-sans-fonts 3.052-1

adobe-source-serif-fonts 4.005-1

noto-fonts-cjk 20230817-1

noto-fonts-extra 1:23.11.1-1

Currently trying otf-monaspace though and I quite like it.

I really like cascadia-code for my terminal (nerdfonts.com has the version with all the ligatures)

I don't do any graphic design or anything like that, so the fonts that come with any modern distro seem to do the trick - maybe I'd install ttf-ms-fonts for better compatibility when dealing with files across multiple operating systems.

• inter for gnome
• fira-mono for terminal
• fira-code for coding
• noto, liberation and dejavu for completion

I have Ubuntu, inter and IBM Plex installed on my kde plasma install, but somehow I keep forgetting to set any of them and just keep the noto sans that comes default with KDE. lol

Apple's San Francisco including New York and Mono Nerd cuz they gud :)

Verdana for normal usage and Source code pro for Terminal

Monocraft JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono everywhere. Like. E V E R Y W H E R E

i usually import all Windows fonts and some nerdfonts for terminal

https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ this has been my favorite for a while. It keeps the retro sort of look while still being actually ledgible

I usually use Roboto or Inter as my desktop font on gtk/gnome

The iA Writer fonts are quite nice, but super proprietary and not neccesary by any means

link

roboto because cute face

I always use https://luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html to typeset documents like letters and such. I find it pleasant looking and it is supposedly easy to read for people with dyslexia.

Beware font fingerprinting

futura ❤️

recently, upon reading about its typographer's ideas about it, i'm trying avenir over frutiger