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Font thread!
Post your favorite fonts, for every font you like post another one! The purpose of this thread is to get the best fonts flowing faster. Discuss your favorite fonts and feel free to share your opinion on fonts you dislike. If you have the skill, make your own!
Font renaissance inbound!
▶ No.869267
>make thread
>don't make the first contribution yourself
>first post /threads himself
/g/ has truly settled in.
▶ No.869276>>894507
>>869254
Google Noto
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▶ No.869419
I like using a font called IBM 3270 Medium for my monospace needs where Fira Code doesn't work. Either that or More Perfect DOS VGA.
▶ No.869461
eurostile. It's the font of the future.
▶ No.869463
Whats the best bitmap font to use for terminal???
▶ No.869468
▶ No.869489>>869592 >>869593
i'm looking for a good proprietary font. /tech/ friendly suggestions?
▶ No.869592>>869596
>>869489
Microsoft Sans Serif :^)
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▶ No.869596
▶ No.869839>>870153
>>869254
I've just been in this place before
▶ No.870108>>871164 >>882295 >>882305 >>901662
i use profont. everything else looks disgusting on terminals.
▶ No.870153>>870158 >>884217
>>869839
[spoiler]Higher on the street
And I know it's my time to go[/spoiler]
▶ No.870158
>>870153
well meme, fellow redditor!
▶ No.870196
>>869252 (OP)
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▶ No.870212>>870554 >>870565
Microsoft fonts are my favorites outside of the terminal (Arial specifically) because they don't look like dog shit when you turn antialiasing off.
For the terminal I use Terminus.
▶ No.870484>>886640
Cantarell is used in all the office documents at the home renovation company I work for. The documents are mostly contracts and invoices.
We use Cantarell because all the employees in the office use GNOME on their workstations, which uses Cantarell, so everyone already has the font regardless of whether they're on Debian or Fedora or Ubuntu.
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▶ No.870554>>871871 >>882737
>>870212
>turning off antialiasing
brainlet move tbqh w/ u fam
▶ No.870565>>886641
>>870212
I use terminus EVERYWHERE!
▶ No.870567
Sans Serif, why would anyone need anything else?
▶ No.871164
>>870108
If you like bmp fonts, check out tewi and tamsyn (normal sizes of the latter aren't super impressive or anything, but really really small sizes are possible without turning into eye cancer, like 5x7)
▶ No.871191
This is a hotwheels thread.
▶ No.871700
>>870576
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
▶ No.871868
Gentium: produced by a religious organization to render the most beautiful and readable print material - particularly the Holy Bible - in pretty much any western language. Supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, with thousands of characters and glyphs.
https://software.sil.org/gentium/
▶ No.871871
>>870554
If his screen has enough dpi, anti-aliasing for fonts is meaningless.
▶ No.871872
>>870576
A worse Helvetica, abandoned even by Google.
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▶ No.882208>>882413 >>882706 >>886643
This whole imageboard uses windows fonts and without windows fonts it looks like shit.
Only in chrome it looks bearable. Firefox and Waterfox display 8chan is small edgy fonts that hurt eyes.
▶ No.882264>>886655
Anyone remember this classic? Ow the edge.
▶ No.882295
>>870108
Terminux font is better
▶ No.882299
>>869252 (OP)
literally whatever is there by default and if it's shit change it to the next available option
>If you have the skill, make your own!
I made an 8x8 pixel latin (not ASCII, fuck your UNIX trash) font a while ago. it took a few hours..
▶ No.882305
>>870108
SGI Screen, terminus as fallback for slavrunes (fonts clash due to slightly different perceived size, but mixed-language texts are rare enough for this not being problem)
>URxvt*font: xft:Screen:size=10,xft:terminus:size=10
▶ No.882413
>>882208
That's your own choice to have small fonts. Web browsers actually have the ability to change the default font size.
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▶ No.882706
>>882208
This site looks fine with Liberation Sans.
▶ No.882737
>>870554
Why would I want shitty mush fonts when I could have pure pixels?
▶ No.883413>>883421
I posted a font called "aneu" in a similar thread recently, did anyone download it? My drive died, and since it was in /usr/share/fonts it didn't cross my mind that I wasn't backing it up
▶ No.883421
>>883413
https://my.mixtape.moe/ajnzqt.tar.xz
I guess 8ch is archived and indexed by search engines now. Not sure how I feel about that.
▶ No.883748>>883981
Does anyone else feel like the constant switching between bitmap and antialiased fonts is tiring ?
▶ No.883981>>883991
>>883748
I’m sick of the switching... I prefer bitmap for the simplicity and they can look just as good if not better depending on the resolution
▶ No.883991>>884247
>>883981
You are objectively wrong, especially when it comes to chink/gook runes. I use bitmaps on my 768p shitpad because I can't get enough readable information on the screen otherwise. The density on my 1440p monitor is high enough that bitmaps can gtfo. Pretty much anything >96DPI makes bitmaps a retarded meme.
▶ No.884217
>>870153
Why doesn't /g/ take five minutes to consider that this isn't 4chan?
▶ No.884247
>>883991
What's your density? I still use "xos4 Terminus:size=12" on my 1440p 27" monitor.
▶ No.884480
>>869252 (OP)
>favourite font
Arimo and Roboto
▶ No.884548
>>871678
You don't spend a lot of time working with code, do you?
▶ No.886640
>>870484
but cantarel is only used by gtk for the ui
for print you better use liberation sans / mono
▶ No.886641
>>870565
The Absolute madman!
▶ No.886643>>886646 >>886648
>>882208
ok, all you niggers need to fix your fonts
https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/191#issuecomment-289799221
with this you only need RGB enabled, no hinting, no AA, no nothing
▶ No.886646>>886653
>>886643
Was this written by a retard ?
I can't understand a damn thing.
▶ No.886648>>886653 >>886810 >>887098
>>886643
>poohooomil
Stop with this old meme. Infinality was dead once the patents on truetype expired. Fonts render perfectly fine without that shit if they are configured correctly.
▶ No.886653>>886680
>>886646
>>886648
read the post retard
▶ No.886655
>>882264
It's High School Goth Chick: The Font
▶ No.886672
>>871678
Nice, linux libertine mono was the only mono serif font I could find as well. Extremely comfy.
▶ No.886680>>886794
>>886653
I've read twilight fiction that wasn't this innept.
In fact the whole infinality community looks like an offshoot of xda developers but for tranny brazillian arch users.
Like just look at that issue op.
▶ No.886762
DejaVu Sans Book for sans-serif
Hack for monospace
▶ No.886779
liberation serif
liberation sans
liberation mono
What more do you need?
▶ No.886810>>887098
>>886648
This. Infinality is totally useless since freetype 2.8.
▶ No.887098
>>886810
>>886648
the stupid is strong in this one
▶ No.887228>>887381
>>886794
riddle me this reddit
what's so fucking hard to look at some fontconfig documentation and write a xml files, while testing the font rendering from time to time to see which states you prefer
in what god forsaken jewed universe do you need to install the equivalent of my os in MB of fonts
▶ No.887381>>887394 >>887395
>>887228
i don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel (not an idiot)
too much foaming in your last sentence, something about install and megabytes but stop embarrassing yourself
▶ No.887394
>>887381
>i don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel (not an idiot)
just use windows lmao
▶ No.887395>>888093
>>887381
also sorry for double posting like a retard but since when is configuring software to your liking "reinventing the wheel"
the absolute state of this board
▶ No.888093>>888152
>>887395
why should I configure it to my liking when it's already configured to my liking
and it is my opinion that nobody knows fonts, online, nobody. if they did we'd have more working examples but afaik only bohoomil has published one and i can't even begin to write that, simply because i'm not familiar with typography and the families and then the rules. it's factually proven no one knows fonts better, else we wouldn't have the linux fonts suck meme and everyone crying how bad it looks
▶ No.888152>>888382 >>888384
>>888093
Look, I think I'm coming at this from a wrong perspective and I don't think I'm contributing anything.Instead of being negative tell me what can be done.(I'm interested)
Does the fate of 'linux font rendering' lie upon an issue comment on github ?
What is there to be done from you point of view ?
Don't similar efforts happen with popular distributions ? I remember ubuntu had a fontconfig "fork".
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▶ No.888382>>888387 >>888388
>>888152
freetype is good
you need fontconfig bindings/aliases/substitute rules to make use of font packages you have installed, this is what that github post covers
>Don't similar efforts happen with popular distributions
no? afaik all major distros have crap font by default, either because previous freetype/<2.7/ or because they leave metric incompatible substitutions simply because they either don't care or don't know and you have to write them yourself which is ludicrous, only exception is ubuntu obviously
▶ No.888384
>>888152
>What is there to be done from you point of view ?
attract people who are familiar with fonts to keep what bohoomil has written up to date [for new freetype] or possibly fix and improve upon it, since he's vanished :(
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▶ No.892226
>>888388
i mean it's not end all be all but it's easy to have nice/acceptable fonts with a few commands in minutes with what's left in that github repo and liberation at least
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▶ No.894507>>894512 >>905570
i dont' give a shit what the font is or how it looks as long as it isn't blurry. i've been having a ton of problems with that on this recent gentoo installation.
>>869276
noto is what i'm on now, because I resorted to loading an xubuntu live disk and copying what that's using, which is noto.
i can't tell the difference between slight and full subpixel rending, that seems to help. chromium on the other hand does it's own font rendering thing, which results in blurry shit fonts and i haven't figured out why yet.
maybe i just need glasses
▶ No.894512>>894524
>>894507
example illustrating the problem. the chromium tab is noticeably more blurry than the rest of xfce, which I think I have going decently now.
▶ No.894524
>>894512
gtfo chromium niggers
▶ No.894539>>900993
Why care about fonts? Care about content, then pick something that looks cool. Don't be a middle-schooler who spends 15 minutes choosing what fancy font to write his paper in then writes a single paragraph in 5 minutes. Content is key, fuck font.
▶ No.900993
>>894539
>stop caring about stuff I don't care about
▶ No.900995>>901009
GNU UniFont is the superior font. Exists on practically every system, covers most of the Unicode codepoints. And of course looks beautiful.
▶ No.901009
>>900995
This. Using any other font is considered harmful.
▶ No.901662
>>870108
adobe helvetica (terminal xorg font) looks just as good
▶ No.901695>>901705 >>902024
Pretty much these ones.
If you're doing signage, coding, games or videos these should cover you.
Especially if you're doing cyberpunk or DOS-inspired games.
▶ No.901705>>903522
>>901695
>Papyrus
Marginally less horrible than using Comic Sans
▶ No.901708
Why is avec serif even a thing, it looks like utter crap. I always force Firefox to use sans.
▶ No.901862>>902123
Nimbus, the URW take on Helvetica, legible everywhere, easy on old eyes.
▶ No.902024>>903522
>>901695
>OCR A STD and not OCR A Extended
>not also using OCR B
Why do you gimp yourself?
▶ No.902123>>902267
>>901862
What's even the difference, seems like a 97% Narrow Helvetica.
▶ No.902267
>>902123
http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Nimbus+Sans&second=Helvetica&q=Go
More like 99.9%, according to the above 'O' is undetectably more oblong in Helvetica.
▶ No.902428
Noto family looks great actually.
▶ No.902993
What is a good font for ereader? (300dpi screen) I'm struggling
▶ No.903042>>903056
I don't know why, but I really like the Ubuntu font family.https://design.ubuntu.com/font/
▶ No.903056
>>903042
I really liked it on the phone, but too fabulous for the desktop.
▶ No.903522
>>902024
OCR A Extended is good, had to look close to realize the difference though.
>>901705
I think people just pick Comic Sans cause it's easy to read.
Papyrus is like the Geocities animated GIF of fonts.
▶ No.903543>>903546 >>904183
monospace, fuck you faggots.
▶ No.903546>>903550
>>903543
just how reddit do you have to be to post this
▶ No.903550>>903730
>>903546
Go back to r/unixporn faggot, i'd rather work in a functional terminal instead of spending hundreds of hours ricing stupid shit that doesn't matter.
▶ No.903552
is there a good monospaced font that includes unicode characters so i can program in emojis?
▶ No.903553>>903565
Lekton bold
Dejavu san mono
IBM Plex
that's all you need for programming
▶ No.903565
>>903553
That does not look like a monospace font.
▶ No.903730
>>903550
monospace is just an alias retard, jesus christ the absolute state of this board
▶ No.904183
>>903543
HAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Excellent bait.
▶ No.905570
>>894507
>blurry
you either use dejavu instead of liberation or don't use rgb
▶ No.905573
post yfw
>ubuntu looks surprisingly similar to cantarell
>cantarell looks surprisingly similar to dejavu
▶ No.906349
>>888262
Thanks, Fixedsys Excelsior 2.0 has a really nice penis at U+EC1E.
Also bitocra and scientifica are really nice monospaced bitmap fonts.
https://github.com/ninjaaron/bitocra
https://github.com/NerdyPepper/scientifica