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What's your favourite font? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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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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[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 months ago

People's Liberation Font

[-] ta00000@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Serif: It can only be the legendary doves font, with it's square periods and offset I dots

Sans: lucida grande

Bitmap: gohu or profont

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

The doves font story is really cool, thanks for sharing

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

That is true.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Doves font needs a paid license. So if you don't pay, and use it on anything public-facing, you can be sued (I'm guessing).

[-] ta00000@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I just use it to print my own books sometimes (if it suits the book)

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Cool! I just hate copyright, licensing and all that.

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

fuck Microsoft but cascadia code goes hard

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I'll try it my editor. Thanks.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

papyrus or comic sans

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

You joke (probably) but they've done studies and not only is comic sans one of the most legible fonts, but people tend to remember more information if they read it in comic sans.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I certainly remember the names of every business logo I have seen that uses it. For one reason or another (probably because I am like "Ha, you fools!").

There is school near my house that uses it too. The letters have been etched out of metal too!

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Papyrus is a neat decorative font.

Comic Sans is awful and annoying IMO.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Long time Terminus fan, but I found a new love: Spleen

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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).

[-] IngrownMink4@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

As a Terminus fanboy, I love it! Thanks for sharing!

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

My pleasure!

[-] ped_xing@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Georgia

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Georgia is very beautiful and underrated.

[-] IngrownMink4@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

If you like Georgia, you may also like Gentium

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

my fav coding font ;) https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

[-] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

coding is my passion

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

it's fun when it's not a job I find :)

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Are you serious? Asking because people tend to joke about comic sans often.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Oh I'm totally serious on this one, I find it's weirdly aesthetically pleasing as a coding font.

[-] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bonus: CoronaFaceImpact (Interact here)

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Lexie Readable.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Do you perchance have the italic and bold italic variant of this font? Looks nice on the ereader.

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

There doesn’t appear to be a version of this font that is purely italic or bold–italic.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I wish they had more examples of actual usage.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Lol, this post reminded me I never set up my fonts in VSCodium. Fixed!

For programming, I use JetBrains Mono. I saw it on a post on /r/programmerhumor once and sort of fell in love with it. Using it with a Tokyo Night theme in VSCodium(officially) and it's really nice. Here's a quick screenshot with some JS and HTML to get an idea:

For Sans, I really like both Roboto and SegoeUI but any of the top fonts on FontSource are nice. I'm using Poppins for a website now but I don't like how it looks with heavier weights. It's pretty thick. The CSS framework I am using has Inter as it's first font and then falls back to the usual suspects. So Inter is starting to grow on me just for readability. Might switch back to it from Poppins to makes my life easier. I also like Montserrat because I'm basic. Lato, not so much. Also Arial and Helvetica are nice fallbacks.

For Serif, I'm not super picky but like you said, anything "newsy-looking" is probably good. I for some reason like Roboto Slab. I donno what the difference is between Serif and Slab though, if any.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Slab fonts are usually meant for displaying or printing in larger sizes. Like news headines, billboards etc.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Heck, that's probably good to know. Regular serif is cool too lol.

[-] atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

monofonto, aka the pipboy font

[-] sudo_halt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Fira Code and JetBrains Mono

[-] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] IngrownMink4@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

IBM 3270

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Williams Caslon for the e-reader and New Heterodox Mono for the vs code.

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Century Supra looks quite snazzy as well, I must say.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Let me know if you want the ttf files for it. It renders well on ereaders too.

[-] IngrownMink4@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

VAG Rounded and basically any cursive font.

I forgot to add Noto Sans Tagalog

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