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What fonts are the most common on Linux today? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mill@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] iampivot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

14x8

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

Google Sans Text, Cabin, Fira Sans, Roboto, Noto

For monospaced Jetbrains Mono, Fira Code, Iosevka

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I use IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono

[–] AJCxZ0@kbin.social 1 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"

[–] ctr1@fl0w.cc 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use Terminus (ter-112n) for TTY, Source Code Pro for terminal emulators, and DejaVu, Liberation, and Noto for others

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Not common, but Modern DOS is a great nostalgic family of pixel-oriented fonts for terminals and such.

[–] kabuma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

MathJax Sans Serif

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

Taking a quick glance at the font packages I have installed, I find the Liberation family, Freefont, the old MS core fonts, a couple of Bitstream Vera Sans variations (including Deja Vu), and the ancient URW fonts, plus a couple of CJK-specific fonts, since I need those characters just often enough for their absence to be noticed.

Freefont has decent coverage of what was in Unicode as of ten years ago, and so in combination with the CJK specialty fonts covers most common writing systems worldwide. I'm not particularly concerned about things like Anatolian hieroglyphs, a couple of hundred less-common emoji, or the Bitcoin symbol being missing.

[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I like the new intel mono, and ubuntu for non-mono.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 2 years ago

The default font in the web browser on Ubuntu look bad. Different length between the letters and size

[–] DearAll@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I use whatever the default is for my desktop environment and for terminal I always go for Source Code Pro.

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