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.
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.
Just looked at the screenshot on the Victor Mono page and the kerning makes me want to rip my eyes out....
Liberation fonts, Noto fonts, Deja Vu fonts and Nimbus fonts pretty much. Add in Cantarell too and you are set I would say. Those are the ones you should install for compatibility.
I always install Inter for UI and JetBrains Mono for terminal usage. I find they render way better than pretty much anything else.
Update: Discovered Geist and Geist Mono and they are amazing, I am going to replace Inter and JetBrains Mono from now on: github.com/vercel/geist-font
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.
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.
Just started using the Inter Display fonts and IBM Plex Mono fonts for my GNOME desktop.
https://github.com/rsms/inter
https://github.com/IBM/plex
Both are packaged in Debian.
There is even a discussion about making Inter the default font for GNOME: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/issues/52
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
- inter for gnome
- fira-mono for terminal
- fira-code for coding
- noto, liberation and dejavu for completion
https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ this has been my favorite for a while. It keeps the retro sort of look while still being actually ledgible
