Personally, whatever is default.
I know that may sound weird, but I'm a huge fan of sane defaults that I don't even notice are there.
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SegoeUI, it’s damn good and well made
Poppins, RobotoMono, Comfortaa and OpenDyslexic
For desktop, I've liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.
For terminal, I used Iosevka's customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:
[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
family = "Iosevka Firesque"
spacing = "term"
serifs = "sans"
noCvSs = true
exportGlyphNames = false
[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
inherits = "ss05"
[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
g = "single-storey-serifed"
long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
brace = "straight"
ampersand = "upper-open"
at = "threefold"
cent = "open"
Pusab (I'm a gd player)
Hack nerd font is my go to for terminal use.
Whatever the default font is
Ubuntu
Fantasque
Fira Sans / FiraGO by Mozilla, and the new SUSE font by SUSE.
Fira Code and Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font for monospace. For other uses, I'm usually good with whatever the system ships with.
VictorMono, has a cool cursive, mono spaced font.
Lato, League Spartan, League Gothic are my three most used fonts by a wide margin. Lato and its variety of weights for most things, League when I am doing design work and need a cleaner title or header.
Lately ive been weirdly taken with TT2020 Style G, which is an odd name for a no-name font that replicates an old imperfect typewriter. For whatever reason, switching my writing software to that (Manuscript) suddenly fired up my writing flow.
Iosevka
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.
Inter for desktop and the nerd-font variant of JetBrainMono for Terminal.
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Please don't hate me but for desktop I use Segoe UI. After years of using it everything else looks just kinda off and cheap to me. Similar to when folder icons are not yellow
Nothing wrong with that! I prefer Inter for nearly all UIs these days, but I still think Segoe UI looks better than GNOME's current default of Cantarell.
It is a well-designed system font. Say what you will about Microsoft but they do know how to make a good font or two.
Iosevka.
Same. I've compiled a custom variant of Iosevka for terminal and code, because I want to have some chars in a certain way, especially the 0 and the & for even better readability. I used to have Monoid for code and terminal, but it the pixel perfect size for 12pt was getting too small for me and my eyes are not getting any better. Iosevka looks better even after some hinting by the OS.
On the rest of the desktop UI I use B612, because it is very ledgible, I recently switch over from the hyperledible Atkinson font. Before that I had Gidole on the desktop. Very pleasing, but not that readable at same font size.
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Since basically forever I use DejaVu Sans for UI elements and DejaVu Mono for the terminal.
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Protomolecule for that scifi feel
As a huge expanse fan, I'm glad someone brought this to life! (Shout-out for the space the nation podcast if you like nerds breaking down the episodes and need a good back catalog for the dark winter days)
Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o
Scifi fonts remind me of old Rainmeter configurations. Wonder if Rainmeter ricing is still around
🟨 preview: Protomolecule
Except the terminal and a few other places.
While it's very good looking, it's not extremely practical with no difference (almost) between lower case and upper case letters.
I've been using Source Code Pro for a while now. Might not be the best, but it does the job for me.
me too, i use it for terminal as well
Lexend Deca for me. A mix of a dyslexoc-font, Arial and a bit of the roundness of Comic Sans. (Sorry, probably bad examples, am no font nerd)
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any with a dotted zero, extra points for italic.
Gohu Font Nerd is a nice small bitmap font I'm fond of. Only issue is the size for high DPI monitors, but the JetBrainsMono nerd font is a nice vector font that's easy on the eyes (quite stereotypical/cliché, but that's for a reason).
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U001 is my main system font as a clone of Univers. Monospace is Berkeley Mono—it might be paid/proprietary but boy does it look nice & was an upgrade from several years with Iosevka. JuliaMono is its fallback though since I use Unicode with frequency & Berkeley doesn’t cover all the symbols I use.
The important part is if you care anything about your fonts, you won’t destroy them by patching in that uncurated hodgepodge called “Nerd Fonts” clobbering used symbols or the wrought-with-false-positive “coding ligatures” which is not how ligatures are supposed to be used but programmers refuse to demand Unicode support in their languages to fix the problem.
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For terminal/editor I went through CodingFont and ended up on Noto Sans Mono. Before that I used Source Code Pro for years. Both patched for nerd fonts, obviously.
I wish to put in a plug for Noto Sans Semicondensed for spreadsheets, although not generally for system-wide use.
I recommend it for my Tonto2 List Maker script, which uses a spreadsheet layout. Noto Sans Semicondensed has "tabular figures," which means you can use it in tables to align digits and decimals with simple spaces and still have the look of a proportionally spaced font for text.
Noto Sans Semicondensed is available from Google, of course, but Linux Users will be more likely to install the fonts-noto-core package.
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