For a long time, I’ve just put on DejaVu fonts and been done with it. Generally good enough Unicode coverage for me. But I know it’s been years since DejaVu’s been updated, and I wonder what’s very common today.

[As for the terminal, I’m guessing it’s usually still the standard fixed Unicode fonts?]

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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Dejavu, Liberation, & Noto are all pretty common.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm a sucker for jetbrains Mono when I need a monospaced font. It just looks nice to me.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I usually install noto-fonts

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I LOVE FIRA CODE (NERD PATCHED)!!!!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ubuntu uses their own font family. I think it’s one of the only distributions with its own custom font, but I might be wrong. The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto font family, which many distributions switched to as default. But it mostly depends on the DE — Gnome uses the Cantarell font, KDE uses the aforementioned Noto font.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto

    Well it's pretty much the entire point of Noto after all, so it's probably hard to beat, from the website:

    The name is also short for "no tofu", as the project aims to eliminate 'tofu': blank rectangles shown when no font is available for your text.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I like fira code w/ nerd fonts. The ligatures are nice for coding.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The f and t crossers being at different levels breaks my concentration when I'm reading code. I prefer comic mono and fantasque for this reason, but fira code is exceptionally well thought out

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Can't speak to how common they are, but I do like the Nerd Fonts, and particularly MesloLGS NF 10pt for my monospaced font. Very handy for Zsh Powerline10k and neovim.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Inter for GUI, Iosevka for terminal. Dejavu is my fallback option for some systems.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I use open dyslexia as I have dyslexia. Its very nice!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I enjoy Fira Sans and Fira Mono. Looks professional without being extraordinarily boring.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Hack Nerd Font Mono and Noto Sans for me.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I have settled on mplus code, I really like its condensed look.

    https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Usually I just use whatever fonts are default on the DE I happen to be using at the time, right now that'd be GNOME so I believe its Cantarell? I don't generally customize my normal (non-monospace) fonts because I can never find one that looks good everywhere. I like Google's "Product Sans" font for example, but it is definitely not one you want to use everywhere. Yet oddly enough on my Pixel, I believe Product Sans is the default unless an app explicitly changes it, and it looks good everywhere there. Or maybe I've just never given changing the default enough time to adjust to it, who knows.

    The monospace font that I use is Comic Code, it sounds silly I know (I was skeptical at first too) - but it looks really nice in both my terminal and IntelliJ. Something about the font renderer that is used by default (I can't think of the name for some reason, FreeType maybe?) makes it look really nice and sharp. On Windows, it looks too thin, and on macOS it looks too thick - Linux is truly the "golidlocks" for this font it seems.

    But, the Intel One Mono font looks nice too.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Ubuntu fonts works pretty good for me as a general UI font tbh. In text editors I prefer mononoki over monospace, it's a bit prettier IMO, although in terminal I use terminus because pixel fonts are cool.

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  • I use noto fonts for web browsing and general GUI stuff and I use Cascadia Code in the terminal

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think it's that common, but if you're looking for good fonts, I really like IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono. Has good Unicode coverage as well and is "open source" (or whatever it's called for fonts).

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    I'm a fan of the Go fonts for terminals.

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    I've been using JetBrains Mono Nerd Font for my terminal as of late and Inter for my GUI's.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    it's Jetbrains where it's at..

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I have a weird selection- Jetbrains Mono with Monocraft and the bold Minecraft font. Jetbrains Mono is for everything except discord. Monocraft with Minecraft Bold is for Discord which i have IRCified with a custom Vencord theme.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I generally install MS Office Fonts, some Adobe Fonts and then Fira Code Nerd Font too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I like Iosevka for programming and terminal.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Lexend fonts, they increase reading speed, offer more precise size control, and have the extra perk of being more accessible for differently abled readers. I like to familiarize myself with "accessible" design, the more we get used to it as normal the better our world can get.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Lots of great fonts and families mentioned so far in this thread, but no-one has mentioned my current and long-time favourite for almost all environments and applications: Input.

    $ echo sans serif monospace | xargs -n 1 fc-match
    InputSansCondensed-Regular.ttf: "Input Sans Condensed" "Regular"
    InputSerifCondensed-Regular.ttf: "Input Serif Condensed" "Regular"
    InputMono-Regular.ttf: "Input Mono" "Regular"
    
    
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ubuntu / Ubuntu Mono are my favorites.

    I use Fedora, but I still install Ubuntu font because I prefer it lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I use the entire Apple's SF suite (including New York)

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    Do you use the ttf/off version? I just tried to install them in KDE (off some sketchy git repo) but they look really wonky as a UI don’t.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I use fantasque for my monospace, fira sans for my work horse ui font, and Garamond for my "someone wants to display serifs for some reason"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My preference for a few years have been a combination if IBM Plex Sans for most stuff and Iosevka for monospace. They both look amazing! Iosevka might look a bit weird when first seeing it but I can't really use anything else these days. However, Fira Code is a really good monospace font as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not common, perhaps, but I like to download Atkinson Hyperlegible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    For sans and serif font, Noto Sans and Noto Serif.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I really like CaskaydiaCo[d|v]e.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    No clue, the default one, in MX Xfce I think it's noto

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