What is your “basic” list of fonts every linux desktop user should install ?

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    1 year ago

    This isn’t specific to Linux necessarily, but the best free fonts I like the most that I always install regardless of OS are:

    • DejaVu (included by default in a lot of Linux distros but not in Windows)
    • EB Garamond (a font intended to replicate Garamond but with the Open Font License)
    • Inconsolata (a font intended to replicate Consolas but with the Open Font License)
    • Noto (also included by default on a lot of Linuxes but not on Windows)
    • Vollkorn
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        Yeah I fucking love that font. Better than Noto Mono because in Inconsolata the zeros have a cross through them and therefore it’s easier to distinguish them from the letter O.

        The only downside is that it hasn’t been updated since 2015-12-04 and thus only has “the base ASCII set and … the Latin 1, 2, and 9 complements”. So it works for most English-speaking purposes, but runs into problems if you try to use certain symbols used outside of that context, like other languages or some special characters. I don’t run into it often enough to be too much of a problem, but it is there.