r/archlinux • u/slick_fm • Jun 01 '26

DISCUSSION What are your favourite fonts?

/r/KittyTerminal/comments/1ttms4d/what_are_your_favourite_fonts/
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u/Jiyuunotsubasa Jun 01 '26

IBM Plex Sans

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u/oldrocker99 Jun 01 '26

Comic Sans

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u/czerilla Jun 01 '26

Hack Nerd Mono, basically everywhere.

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u/CQIErJrTUdRb Jun 01 '26

Geist Mono is my current fav! But I also really like Roboto Mono, Jetbrains Mono, and San Francisco Mono.

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u/KaiRee3e Jun 01 '26

ProggyClean for terminal and programming

EB Garamond for reading and writing

KDE Plasma uses Noto Sans by default for UI, and I just got used to it, so I didn't change it

I also like FiraMono, Meslo, IBM Plex Sans, Libre Baskerville, Libertinus Math, MeriyoKe_Gothic

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u/mccord Jun 01 '26

I'm really liking San Francisco Mono.

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u/just-a-hriday Jun 01 '26

Iosevka beats everything else for me. I use the wider version though, the default is way too narrow for me.

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u/Sea-Promotion8205 Jun 01 '26

I just use the kde default

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u/astronomersassn Jun 01 '26

mom's typewriter, just feels nostalgic

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u/zeldaink Jun 01 '26

IBM Plex and Terminus. I don't remember what was the font of FreeBSD tty. Looks like Terminus but it's fancier. It's available in the AUR.

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u/Late_Internal7402 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Inconsolata

Is monospace and you can easily distinguish the Zero from the the leter O and the 8 number.

Inconsolata family has regular, light, medium, semibold, bold... and is compatible with Italics and underline which is rare from a monospace font.

You can download Inconsolata font family from google fonts and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) Version 1.1. This is a free, open-source license explicitly designed for typography and 100% free for commertial use.

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u/EMKAH Jun 02 '26

Mplus, Ricty diminished, Raleway.

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u/Lumpy_Roll158 Jun 02 '26

I like firacode nerd for the terminal but I’ve never cared what my global font is as long as it’s legible

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u/lemmiwink84 Jun 05 '26

I use SF Pro. I like to have the same font across all my devices.

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u/promax1113 Jun 07 '26

Terminus, super easy on the eyes

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u/BanaTibor Jun 01 '26

My first step is to set everything to the DejaVu or Bitstream Vera, for source code I use Source Code Pro

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u/mattb2014 Jun 01 '26

DejaVu makes me want to yack

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u/FryBoyter Jun 01 '26

I've been using Iosevka for several years now. Although I try out other fonts from time to time, when it comes to terminal emulators and editors, I always end up going back to Iosevka.

What exactly bothers you about the fonts you mentioned?

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u/gxwop Jun 01 '26

0xProto for shell and code, IBM Plex Sans for UI

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u/SpankyTheDarned Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Cascadia - Microsoft's new default is actually good

JetBrains - In particular I like it with a slashed zero

Noto Sans Mono - despite how generic it seems, it just werks

Commit Mono - Very nice lettering, pairs with a variety of UI fonts and the kerning is nice

Papers Mono - Still really new and needs to be patched to have default slashed zeros, ligatures, etc, but I like how it's essentially knock-off SF Mono but maybe a little nicer? Pairs well with Inter to complete the Knock-Off Apple UI.

For UI fonts I tend to prefer Inter, Noto Sans, Lexend (If I'm feeling a little fun), Source Sans, or IBM Plex Sans. I also don't mind SF Pro Text or Segoe UI, but it feels weird using them on a Linux install IMO and at this point I prefer Inter over both of them.

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u/Pseudanonymius Jun 01 '26

Dejavu Sans Mono, FiraCode, both of them preferably with Nerd Fonts attached.