Whatever comes default with the current system.
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i want serifs. I use Go Mono for monospaced text. i've yet to find a good proportional slab serif font to match though.
By proportional slab serif do you mean unmonospacing the monospace like what Ubuntu does? I guess that's why Go Proportional wouldn't work being a sans serif
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yeah just using the same characters but "squished" doesn't work since the serifs take up the character space. you need a font designed as proportional. slab serif just means that the serifs are squared rather than pointed like on Times.
Anyone using Nimbus Sans?
It's actually preinstalled in a lot of systems. You can check via
gnome-font-viewer or find /usr/share/fonts -name "*Nimbus*"
I know that this will anger some people, but I just use the defaults and I don't get why there are so many fonts, since they don't seem that much different to me.
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Iosevka
Fira Code and Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font for monospace. For other uses, I'm usually good with whatever the system ships with.
Fira Sans / FiraGO by Mozilla, and the new SUSE font by SUSE.
Ubuntu
Whatever the default font is
Poppins, RobotoMono, Comfortaa and OpenDyslexic
Noto Sans for sans-serif text (and the OS)
It's legible, standard-looking and support about every writing system in the world.
You can install it on Debian using # apt install fonts-noto, some others like -cjk and -extra help with the "supports about every writing system in the world"-aspect.
Merriweather for the serif font fallback for the browser, as well as TTRPG campaign printouts
It's very legible, and looks quite sexy for a serif font.
There's no package for it currently (although AUR and Nix users might have better luck), it has to be downloaded from Google Fonts
JetBrains Mono for the terminal TUI's
It looks a bit playful, like lego-letters, is legible and supports about every writing system in the world.
# apt install fonts-jetbrains-mono.
Although I use...
Verdana for source code
It differentiates every character well and leaves enough space to easily recognise special characters such as brackets.
And I don't believe monospace fonts are more legible.
It's included in ttf-mscorefonts-installer but the font is not open-source.
Pusab (I'm a gd player)
Inter everywhere
SegoeUI, it’s damn good and well made
I switched to Commit Mono for Terminal not too long ago but I really like it. Otherwise I use Cantarell but only because it is default and I never felt the need to change it.
I mostly use an android, and the default font is Ideal Sans Light. On my system, Arial Nova, Courier Prime, Helvetica Neue, Ideal Sans Book and a few others are regulars.
Every once in a while I get this itch which ends up in getting a new favourite font.
VictorMono, has a cool cursive, mono spaced font.
I don’t have a reason to move away from the Fedora defaults except for monospaced fonts.
Terminal wise, terminus is my default. It’s so clean, and it looks good without anti-aliasing.
Roboto Mono is my current preference for monospaced fonts.
Adobe Source Code Pro and JetBrains Mono are good alternatives as well.
Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest
I don't have a favorite system font, am I meant to? I did try to play with fonts at one point but the process of finding fonts and then figuring out how to install them was a bit much.
Verdana, Tahoma and Source code pro is good for eyes