For programming, my favourite is DejaVu Sans Mono. There are many fancy ones out there with hip features like ligatures but I have always found DejaVu the most pleasing to the eye.
For reading, I like Roboto for sans serif. I find it is decently condensed yet easy to read. For serif, I like a paid font called Century Supra. I have pirated this font many times. I also like the serif fonts used by imperialist news outlets a lot as well. IIRC NYT’s is straight up called Imperial.
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People’s Liberation Font
Sans serif: Workplace Sans, Ubuntu, Open Sans, IBM Plex, Orpheus Sans (greek), Neohellenic Sans (greek)
Serif: Baskerville, Garamond, Times New Roman, Didot (greek) and Bodoni (greek)
Monospace: DejaVu Sans Mono, Ubuntu Mono, Fantasque Mono
Fixed: Terminus, Spleen
Decorative: too many to list here
my fav coding font ;) https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
Are you serious? Asking because people tend to joke about comic sans often.
Oh I’m totally serious on this one, I find it’s weirdly aesthetically pleasing as a coding font.
coding is my passion
it’s fun when it’s not a job I find :)
Long time Terminus fan, but I found a new love: Spleen
I really wish there existed a scalable/vector (TTF/OTF) version of it. Bitmap fonts are usually good only for UI elements, not really suitable for print.
Bitmap fonts are usually good only for UI elements,
And terminals. The idea behind Spleen is that it can be read on tiny terminals/screens, that’s why there’s a 5x8 version. If you have a small LCD screen attached to a Raspberry Pi for example then Spleen is a good font to use.
Yes, in fact I first saw Spleen when I checked out OpenBSD. I think it uses that font by default in its terminal. It looks slicker than Terminus.
hah that’s where I saw it too. OpenBSD was booting and I thought to myself the font looks very sleek and sci-fi, it reminded me of Star Trek Deep Space 9 for some reason (no idea why DS9 specifically).
As a Terminus fanboy, I love it! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
- Iosevka
- Anomaly Mono
- Monocraft / Miracode
- Tamsyn / Tamzen
- Cozette
- sqaps/sqreep/3x6
- Raize
- Spleen
- gr737b-9x16-medieval (See screenshot here)
- Vollkorn
- Libertinus
Bonus: CoronaFaceImpact (Interact here)
monofonto, aka the pipboy font
Do you perchance have the italic and bold italic variant of this font? Looks nice on the ereader.
There doesn’t appear to be a version of this font that is purely italic or bold–italic.
I wish they had more examples of actual usage.
Lexend. It’s a font designed with research to have variable widths to aid legibility.
There’s even an Arabic+Latin version called Readex Pro. There’s a really cool article documenting how they adapted variable widths to the unique connected structure of Arabic writing.
Both are freely available on Google Fonts.
Lexend. It’s a font designed with research to have variable widths to aid legibility.
It’s cool, but I personally prefer Atkinson Hyperlegible Font for that usecase
Fira Code and JetBrains Mono
All the fonts I have mentioned are free and open source! They’re all licensed under the OFL license. I hope you like my suggestions :)
My favorite Serif fonts
My favorite Sans-serif fonts
My favorite Display fonts
My favorite Monospace fonts
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Williams Caslon for the e-reader and New Heterodox Mono for the vs code.
Century Supra looks quite snazzy as well, I must say.
Let me know if you want the ttf files for it. It renders well on ereaders too.
IBM 3270
VAG Rounded and basically any cursive font.
I forgot to add Noto Sans Tagalog
