What is your “basic” list of fonts every linux desktop user should install ?
For me personally, it’s Victor Mono and Iosevka. Victor Mono for desktop and Iosevka for VSCodium.
Iosevka is so great. Not everyone likes the narrow look. I’ve tried other fonts a couple of times since I stumbled on it a good handfuls of years ago, but I always come back.
You can always compile your own Iosevka and adjust several pieces, I have done that selecting what I consider the best pieces a long time ago.
The compiled font lives in an easy to access internal webserver that I just grab from every computer I use (=
I like both of those, but my terminal and coding are always in MPlus Code
Nice! That font really looked nice through the smartphone. Will try it out in VSCodium when I can. Thanks!
I love a good condensed font:
https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus
It doesn’t support ligatures though.
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This isn’t specific to Linux necessarily, but the best free fonts I like the most that I always install regardless of OS are:
- DejaVu (included by default in a lot of Linux distros but not in Windows)
- EB Garamond (a font intended to replicate Garamond but with the Open Font License)
- Inconsolata (a font intended to replicate Consolas but with the Open Font License)
- Noto (also included by default on a lot of Linuxes but not on Windows)
- Vollkorn
Inconsolata is my ride or die font for programming.
Same, love using it for terminal and vscode
Yeah I fucking love that font. Better than Noto Mono because in Inconsolata the zeros have a cross through them and therefore it’s easier to distinguish them from the letter O.
The only downside is that it hasn’t been updated since 2015-12-04 and thus only has “the base ASCII set and … the Latin 1, 2, and 9 complements”. So it works for most English-speaking purposes, but runs into problems if you try to use certain symbols used outside of that context, like other languages or some special characters. I don’t run into it often enough to be too much of a problem, but it is there.
Computer Modern, the font of LaTeX
Liberation fonts, Noto fonts, Deja Vu fonts and Nimbus fonts pretty much. Add in Cantarell too and you are set I would say
I commonly use the following font families:
Hack
Noto
Inter
Helvetica
Montserrat
Space Grotesk
Times New Roman
Atkinson Hyperlegible
Cormorant (Garamond)
Noto for desktop apps. Inter is nice too. Roboto was a long time favorite of mine too.
Iosevka for monospace. Hack and Fira Code/Mono are great as well.
Verdana for normal usage and Source code pro for Terminal
These are the ones I install on every system:
ttf-caladea 20200113-3
ttf-carlito 20230509-1
ttf-fira-code 6.2-2
ttf-liberation 2.1.5-1
ttf-linux-libertine-g 20120116-7
adobe-source-sans-fonts 3.052-1
adobe-source-serif-fonts 4.005-1
noto-fonts-cjk 20230817-1
noto-fonts-extra 1:23.11.1-1
Currently trying otf-monaspace though and I quite like it.
Libertinus Serif (much nicer Times New Roman-ish serif text font. Huge amount of glyphs, open source font license, great to read on display and on print)
Lato (Sans font which imo compliments Libertinus Serif really good. More for short texts, headlines etc. I wouldn’t recommend it as a UI font. Also permissive font license.)
I always install the Noto fonts for things like emojis and asian characters, extra fonts to cover the Cyrillic alphabet, and finally OnePlus’s Slate font, which I fell in love with back in the days when I rocked a OnePlus 7 Pro.
I have Ubuntu, inter and IBM Plex installed on my kde plasma install, but somehow I keep forgetting to set any of them and just keep the noto sans that comes default with KDE. lol
I really like cascadia-code for my terminal (nerdfonts.com has the version with all the ligatures)
I don’t do any graphic design or anything like that, so the fonts that come with any modern distro seem to do the trick - maybe I’d install ttf-ms-fonts for better compatibility when dealing with files across multiple operating systems.
Mscorefonts.
Remind me to send a link, the only way to get them seems to be from Windows, pretty stupid. Calibri, Times, Cambria, damn Comic Sans, these.
If you don’t want to get them from microsoft, you can purchase a license elsewhere. Microsoft allows them to be distributed freely as long as the files are not modified. That’s why they are always packaged in an executable installer.
Dejavu is the right font for me for both ebglush and arabic letters.
Apple’s San Francisco including New York and Mono Nerd cuz they gud >:)
I like SF Pro but I use Inter because of it’s OSL
