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?]
Usually I just use whatever fonts are default on the DE I happen to be using at the time, right now that’d be GNOME so I believe its Cantarell? I don’t generally customize my normal (non-monospace) fonts because I can never find one that looks good everywhere. I like Google’s “Product Sans” font for example, but it is definitely not one you want to use everywhere. Yet oddly enough on my Pixel, I believe Product Sans is the default unless an app explicitly changes it, and it looks good everywhere there. Or maybe I’ve just never given changing the default enough time to adjust to it, who knows.
The monospace font that I use is Comic Code, it sounds silly I know (I was skeptical at first too) - but it looks really nice in both my terminal and IntelliJ. Something about the font renderer that is used by default (I can’t think of the name for some reason, FreeType maybe?) makes it look really nice and sharp. On Windows, it looks too thin, and on macOS it looks too thick - Linux is truly the “golidlocks” for this font it seems.
But, the Intel One Mono font looks nice too.
If you like Comic Code you may also enjoy Fantasque Sans Mono. It has a lot of character and feels comfortable to read.
Oh that font looks awesome! I’ll definitely be downloading this and giving it a try, thank you!
Edit: I need to remember how to use FontPatcher to manually patch the “non-curly K” variant, its been forever since I did this process 😅
There’s a link to the non-loop k ttf on the downloads page. I use that variant too; I find the looped k a bit too over the top lol
Right, my apologies I meant to clarify that further - I meant that I needed to use FontPatcher to make it a “nerd font”, so that it has some extra glyphs for various TUIs that utilize them! Somehow I missed that in my original edit, whoops!