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?]

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    Ubuntu / Ubuntu Mono are my favorites.

    I use Fedora, but I still install Ubuntu font because I prefer it lol

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

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

  • 257m
    4•2 years ago

    I’ve been using JetBrains Mono Nerd Font for my terminal as of late and Inter for my GUI’s.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      JetBrains Mono NF masterrace represents!

      Honestly if I have to choose only one mono font family to use for the rest of my natural life, JetBrains Mono without a shred of a doubt.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

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