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What is/are your go-to system fonts?
By system fonts I specifically mean fonts that come shipped with an OS, things like Times New Roman or Cambria.
By system fonts I specifically mean fonts that come shipped with an OS, things like Times New Roman or Cambria.
On macOS my favorite sans font is DIN Alternate. On Windows, Trebuchet MS. And I like Ubuntu Mono so much that I install it on a lot of computers that aren’t running Linux.
I think this is the first time I've actually heard of somebody using Trebuchet, maybe it's my social circles but it always seemed like a forgotten font to me.
What are your thoughts on Lucida Console vs Consolas?
I can see that, I really feel like Consolas is a little, I don't know, compressed maybe? At least compared to Lucida.
On Linux I use Roboto for sans-serif, Liberation-serif for serif (usually), and Hack for monospace.
Personally I generally just stick to defaults most of the time. The Ubuntu Mono font is pretty nice though. My fiancee uses the OpenDyslexic font where she can.
San Francisco Mono is pretty great. I like Monaco too.
Whenever I hear about this font I think of the font with the exact same name, made by the same company.
Hah, I didn't know about it. Cool!
The DeJa Vu set of fonts are great. They are beautiful and highly readable, and they cover a great part of the Unicode definitions. I use all variants of it everywhere. It's default in many distros.
Tamzen is an excellent bitmapped font. Guaranteed /r/unixporn karma if you use it.
I've made Inter UI my default font wherever I can. It’s free & open-source, and I think it’s quite legible.
My second choice would be Roboto.
Wow, your font is beautiful! I might switch to it as the default font on my blog! I'll try out Inter UI tomorrow.
I love interrobangs (‽). If you take requests, can you please tweak its design so that the exclamation and question mark components of that unicode are not superimposed strictly vertically? (I like the fact that in the version in Inter UI, the ! is not intersecting ? -- which happens in almost all sans serif fonts.. making that glyph look like a typo!).
For example, the interrobang in Iosevka (specimens - U+203d) is creatively designed; it's distinguishable, and also doesn't look like a typewriter typo.
I didn’t actually make the font - sorry for the confusion, I might’ve worded that badly!
If you want to request stuff, the Github repo is probably the best place to do so.
Oops, probably my brain read "I've made Inter UI ..", and then incorrectly autocompleted the sentence. I'll open an issue on its GitHub. Thanks!
I use fixedsys for everything.
Huge fan of Courier New for sans-serif, icomoon for a beautiful serif, and MS Comic Sans for a monospace font.
honestly though i just use IBM fonts.Quattrocento Sans for the UI, Hack/Knack for the console.
I mainly use MacOS, but my all-time favourite system font is the Ubuntu font.
I like tewi if I'm going the i3-wm route.
Adobe's free Source fonts are pretty good, I like them for various things.
Ubuntu is a really solidly put together typeface, as is Roboto - but I see so much of both of them I tend not to use them on my system. Gnome's default Cantarell remains perfectly acceptable for title bars and so on.
I'm a fan of Arial, just because it's the system-font Helvetica as far as I know and I think it looks clean and legible. I prefer the sharp edges to more rounded fonts like Calibri, especially at larger text sizes.
Noto fonts for Sans/Serif, Hack for terminal, and all that patched with Nerd Font patcher