At the moment I'm using Intel One Mono in my terminal and text editor but I'd be hard pressed to say there's a font on Earth I actually like, let alone a favorite.
I like the fonts on Google Fonts because most of them are licensed under the SIL Open Font License and I can freely use them for game dev without legal issues. Proprietary fonts like most of the ones sold on MyFonts require you to buy licenses to distribute them in your games and you have to abide by a restrictive EULA which explicitly prohibits you from embedding them in any FOSS apps or games you make.
sold on MyFonts require you to buy licenses to distribute them in your games and you have to abide by a restrictive EULA which explicitly prohibits you from embedding them in any FOSS apps or games you make. >This font is against transphobia >by using this font you are agreeing to stand against transphobia and bigotism
>i imagine you'd just need one big fat HiDPI image for each character and then just scale down from there
No, you define them using vectors and are at the whims of the operating system to maybe or maybe not hint (align) or use subpixels or not. The best of the best are bitmap fonts that are hand-drawn at several small sizes, but 99.9% of them only cover ascii.
You make them with vectors rather than raster images.
Typographers are potentially the biggest autists of all time. There's a billion metrics you need to keep track of and people will spend thousands of hours just to make a font that looks identical to Helvetica and if one of those metrics is wrong it'll look like fucking shit.
I use ttf-ubuntu-nerd and ttf-ubuntu-mono-nerd because I want something "standard looking" but with all icons included like Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others. In Firefox I use Windows fonts from ttf-ms-win11-auto so it looks what I'm used to.
good thread guys 🙂 I'm looking for something like ctrld, except scaleable because it appears strangely extremely spaced out in my terminal and also the font sizes are pretty restricted, any recommendations?
Terminus, included by default on freebsd
At the moment I'm using Intel One Mono in my terminal and text editor but I'd be hard pressed to say there's a font on Earth I actually like, let alone a favorite.
what the fuck are you talking about? fucking nerd
Calibri
Carlito*
FixedSys Excelsior 3.01
https://www.cufonfonts.com/font/fixedsys-excelsior-301
Pendejo*
Estupido*
Gotham and Warsaw Gothic
ubuntu
it came with my operating system
I like the fonts on Google Fonts because most of them are licensed under the SIL Open Font License and I can freely use them for game dev without legal issues. Proprietary fonts like most of the ones sold on MyFonts require you to buy licenses to distribute them in your games and you have to abide by a restrictive EULA which explicitly prohibits you from embedding them in any FOSS apps or games you make.
>and I can freely use them for game dev without legal issues
thanks for the tip anon
sold on MyFonts require you to buy licenses to distribute them in your games and you have to abide by a restrictive EULA which explicitly prohibits you from embedding them in any FOSS apps or games you make.
>This font is against transphobia
>by using this font you are agreeing to stand against transphobia and bigotism
I enjoy IBM Plex
how hard is it to make your own fonts? i imagine you'd just need one big fat HiDPI image for each character and then just scale down from there
>i imagine you'd just need one big fat HiDPI image for each character and then just scale down from there
No, you define them using vectors and are at the whims of the operating system to maybe or maybe not hint (align) or use subpixels or not. The best of the best are bitmap fonts that are hand-drawn at several small sizes, but 99.9% of them only cover ascii.
>99.9% of them only cover ascii.
So they are perfect then
You make them with vectors rather than raster images.
Typographers are potentially the biggest autists of all time. There's a billion metrics you need to keep track of and people will spend thousands of hours just to make a font that looks identical to Helvetica and if one of those metrics is wrong it'll look like fucking shit.
You would use illustrator
font-family: courier;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 35px;
color: black;
Inter seems to be a cool FOSS alternative to Helvetica, as well as Jost for Futura.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter+Tight
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Jost
the windows 3.1 ttfs, including ms gothic/mincho.
Also, courier 10 pitch.
>Also, courier 10 pitch.
Screenwriter?
Nah, I just like it in me terminal.
quicksand semibold
it wasn't intended to be a UI font but I like using it for that
the font renderer gnome uses makes it look really nice for some reason
if I tell you you will use it to fingerprint me 🙁
SF Mono
Looks like shit on Windows (ClearType) but looks great on Linux
You can extract them from the Apple developer fonts download image.
Fira Code, obviously.
Also CTRL + F Fira code > 0 results found
How come no one on this thread has heard of Fira Code before? It's the most popular monocode font on Github.
You can't use monocode font everywhere. Sans serif fonts like Inter are more suited for UI fonts. Fira Sans sucks and looks very ugly.
>You can't use monocode font everywhere
Yes you can!
whatever the default is I dont know what it's called
Firacode NFM Retina
I use Unifont. Everywhere. Every computer I touch turns to Unifont.
Palatino, pirated it.
Spleen 32x64
Everything else is wrong
Times New Roman
Rome
very nice
I use ttf-ubuntu-nerd and ttf-ubuntu-mono-nerd because I want something "standard looking" but with all icons included like Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others. In Firefox I use Windows fonts from ttf-ms-win11-auto so it looks what I'm used to.
good thread guys 🙂 I'm looking for something like ctrld, except scaleable because it appears strangely extremely spaced out in my terminal and also the font sizes are pretty restricted, any recommendations?
whatever my x11 decides to use by default
https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
just look at how fucking legible it is
a look like o
Consolas
Roboto Mono
Terminus
Proggy
Roboto
Calibri
ComicShannsMono, Comic Sans. It’s easy on my dyslexic eyes.
I've been using Inconsolata for the longest, it's my go-to for a monospace font. I also started using Julia Mono.
Whichever comes default with Forty.