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Fonts in action

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:57 pm
by ivanovnegro
Instead of collecting older threads into one I just make this section for all the possible fonts we grillers use or prefer. Post the name of the font or font package (if it comes directly from Debian) and their source preferably with an action shot so we already can see how crisp they look.

I will just repost Rhow's Noto fonts, I think they are very popular.

Sorry I do not use them here. We will just begin again. ;)

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 10:07 pm
by ivanovnegro
I come always back to the Liberation fonts. In the terminal you can see Liberation Mono, directly from Debian properly rendered with my personal font tweaks.

fonts-liberation

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:06 am
by franksinistra
That is a wonderful looking font. Nice music too.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:11 am
by wuxmedia
Boring adobe source code here. You can't really see the sans version in the title that much.
looking to change as it goes a bit weird on the smaller sizes. Although I like that I can haz sans, serif and mono all in one typeface.
I think 'hack' worked quite nice - anyway here's mine, now show us yours ;)
fonts.png

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:13 pm
by ivanovnegro
I have to say they look crispy sexy Wux. Actually I never tried them out.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:00 am
by wuxmedia
it is nice there is a whole suite, so browser can have a 'full set' also, makes things look fairly unified.
They are nice and crips thanks to your fonts config file - as they are not in the repos, they are a hassle to install, happens that I modded a script to help out from the ubuntu forums:
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2599

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:28 am
by Snap
Source code pro is one of my usual fonts to go too, besides I feel my favorite "easiest to the eyes" is still droid (droid sans mono particularly. Drawback: that font family is fucking huge.

Image

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:32 am
by wuxmedia
which one is this then? like the colours, zimage doesn't seem to go 1:1 on that image though :(
(forum attachments are free! - doesn't like spaces in names though)

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:53 am
by franksinistra
This one is FiraCode. I dig ligature fonts like this one and Hasklig.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:21 am
by wuxmedia
Ahh yes, looks nice, squinting at your colours though :P
Fira is a whole suite as well isn't it? for the ill fated fireOS iirc

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:05 am
by franksinistra
^ What's wrong with the colors? Too shitty? Ouch man.... time to switch then.

Fira suite, yup that's the one. I really like the thin, distinctive looking characters ("f", "j", and "g" especially) of the Fira fonts family.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:43 am
by Snap
@ wux: it's droid sans mono. You're right. ZZimgs currently works like crap. Haven't used it in a long while. Thanks for the tips.

@ franksinitra: +1 on Fira. Though another big one.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:29 pm
by GekkoP
I've been with Source Code Pro and Fira Sans for so long now.
Yes, boring I know. :)

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:24 pm
by dkeg
I'm lurking ... fun to watch ... but I will not ruin the thread with my tiny bitmap fonts. Plus they are in my scrots.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:01 pm
by pidsley
^ me either. Everyone knows I use tamsyn or ohsnap everywhere.

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:34 pm
by machinebacon
usually, it's "fixed" for me, or "terminus" - else something like Droid or DejaVu Sans. So, +1 ^ and ^^

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:01 pm
by wuxmedia
do it bitmap chaps, or shall I regale you with Amiga fonts! :p
says, 'fonts' not 'vector based fonts'

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:06 pm
by machinebacon
fonts are bloat

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:31 pm
by dkeg
crazy halloween
as seen on
wm=bspwm
font=boxxy
colors=squares
2016-10-16-172937_1366x768_scrot.png

Re: Fonts in action

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:29 am
by wuxmedia
hmhm sexy, is that a tmux IRC is in? totally understated selector there :)
must reflow mine, been mucked about with so much.