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I've noticed that I often end up wasting a lot of time searching for fonts and colorschemes to use in my terminal and in my web browser. This page is meant to serve as a reminder about my aesthetic tastes and to prevent me from going down into rabbit holes I've already explored before. In addition to listing the fonts that I like and use regularly, I've also mentioned some popular fonts that I didn't like when I used them. The reasons why I didn't like a font are usually one, or more, of the following:
I guess the decision to choose fonts would sound weird and alien to people who are accustomed to "modern" UI and UX patterns on smartphones and desktop environments like GNOME. It's funny how people assume that everyone on the planet would be okay with a specific set of fonts and colors but I hope they realize that people aren't zombies (at least some of us aren't).
It should be obvious but font choices are subjective and won't necessarily have an objective reason for not being used. Even so, I do think there are some criteria that can be used to judge a font, especially monospace fonts.
For monospace fonts, the font:
I bought Berkeley Mono back in February 2024 and I've been enjoying using it since then. This is the first font I've paid for! I was apprehensive about paying for a font but decided to go ahead because I liked what I saw using the demo font.
I'm not sure when I started liking Hermit even though I've had it installed for quite some time. The individual characters might seem relatively poorly designed in terms of legibility but the experience of using it is quite different.
I've always liked Apple's San Francisco font family but it's not open source or available for purchase on Linux. Inter is a perfect substitute for the San Francisco font family, and goes even beyond in terms of quality by providing several OpenType features and a variable version of the font.
Source Serif Pro is a great workhorse serif font that might seem bland but I found that it's quite legible and has a straightforward approach to serif-ness of characters. Unfortunately, appreciating serif fonts requires a HighDPI monitor or printed papers. Source Serif Pro should serve as a great option for blockquotes and headings on websites and body text on printed papers.
Source Serif Pro on Font Squirrel
A colorscheme that I ended up designing after becoming frustrated with the available options. It's WCAG AA compliant and tries to have colors with similar luminance in the CIELAB color space. I haven't made this colorscheme open source yet because I feel it can be improved although I'm using it as a daily driver on my terminal for several weeks now.
A colorscheme that I ended up designing after becoming frustrated with the available options. It's WCAG AAA compliant and tries to have colors with similar luminance in the CIELAB color space. I designed this colorscheme after the developer of the foot terminal, Daniel Eklöf, asked for designing an original dark colorscheme for foot.
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Created: 2023-08-30