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Font Thread Nanonymous No.9746 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C]
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Title says it all. Post about fonts, recommend fonts, recommend font rendering settings.


When it comes to settings, at the very least I recommend you go white on black. Try "#ababab" as your font color, it's greyish and very readable. Make sure your monitor is calibrated so one of the primary colors doesn't pop out, I have found it becomes more obvious when your font isn't straight up white.

Here are some good OTF sans serif fonts:

>San Francisco https://github.com/AppleDesignResources/SanFranciscoFont
Try San Francisco Text Medium.
The Text variant is better than Display in my experience.
>Ubuntu https://design.ubuntu.com/font/
Canonical doesn't distribute it in OTF, you have to compile it yourself.
Condensed is shit, Mono is a shit monospace font, but plain Ubuntu Regular is a great sans serif.
>Source Pro's Sans font, a.k.a Source Sans Pro https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-sans-pro/
Not very good imo. Weird spacing issues and that disgusting complicated "g"
The font family includes a monospace font, a sans serif font, and a serif font, so if you want everything to be consistent it's the best option.

Here's a few great monospace fonts:
>Office Code Pro
https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro
Specially good if you like medium thickness and a blocky look.
It's based on Source Code Pro which is the monospace Source Pro font.


>Source Code Pro https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/
Source Code Pro is also quite good, I recommend Source Code Pro Light if you don't like thick fonts, and Source Code Pro Regular if you're in for that medium thickness and Office Code Pro doesn't please you



Here's a serif font:
>Source Serif Pro https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-serif-pro/
I'm not really a serif guy even though I'm looking for serif fonts, so I don't really know what to say about this one.

Nanonymous No.9747 [D]
I typically just use Dejavu Sans Mono since it usually comes installed by default and looks good enough.

Nanonymous No.9748 [D]
>using anything else than what is provided by xfonts-scalable
cringe

Nanonymous No.9759 [D] >>9762
I use Spleen:
https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/

Except on mpv, where I use DejaVu Sans, although the differentiation between "i", "I", "l" and "L" is completely shit in this font.
For colors I use bg #151515 and fg #504945.

Nanonymous No.9762 [D] >>9765
>>9759
Didn't that become the standard font on OpenBSD at some point? I installed it earlier and I think that was the font on the tty.

Nanonymous No.9765 [D]
>>9762
Yes, it's the default on openbsd when you have supported graphics (amdgpu driver).
I don't have a supported gpu, so I just install spleen through packages and then hardcode that on suckless st terminal before compiling...

Nanonymous No.9767 [D]
Tewi is a preddy gud font.

Nanonymous No.9990 [D]
Nimbus Sans is better helvetica than Helvetica itself
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts

also, does anyone know a good proportional raster font?

Nanonymous No.9997 [D]
I use whatever the default is, and slap themes on top until it looks gud.

Nanonymous No.10155 [D][U][F] >>10176 >>10179 >>10187
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What font is this?

Nanonymous No.10174 [D] >>10179
how do you switch subpixelrendering from RGB to BGR in gnomeshit? is it using truetype or whattever underneath? like i know theres the standard X system (XFT or something) and then the other one.

Nanonymous No.10176 [D] >>10234
>>10155
Looks like some kinda default X11 font.

Nanonymous No.10179 [D]
>>10155
It is whatever font based on proggy font
>>10174
gtk-xft-rgba="bgr" in your .gtkrc

Nanonymous No.10187 [D] >>10234
>>10155
http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

Nanonymous No.10234 [D][U][F]
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>>10176
>>10176
>>10187
Thanks, it's Terminus at size 12.

Nanonymous No.10245 [D]
setfont Uni2-TerminusBold22x11.psf.gz
I use that in framebuffer console. Actually not a fan of Terminus, but none of the VGA fonts were the right size, so this was the next best thing.