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| From | vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Favorite Font |
| Date | 2025-04-13 18:01 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <m62cfdFliodU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <1835a5c81ceedfd3$44418$19313$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <vtgau8$2soia$1@dont-email.me> <m6278dFkklvU1@mid.individual.net> <pan$bfcdb$743d12af$28f7e51a$c272c6f@linux.rocks> |
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:21:58 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in <pan$bfcdb$743d12af$28f7e51a$c272c6f@linux.rocks>: > On 13 Apr 2025 16:32:13 GMT, vallor wrote: > > >> I saw the other post about Biolinum and looked into it. It's very >> organic, and maybe a bit "far-out", but I might give it a shot sometime >> soon. Wouldn't hurt to jazz up the newsreader. >> >> > The Biolinum font is part of the Libertine font package and it seems to > have been superseded by the Libertinus fonts: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertinus > > IMO, Libertinus does not look that good. For text editors a monospaced > font is always recommended and Libertinus Mono is, IMO, not very > attractive. Libertinus Sans (but not mono) looks good in Pan, so I've set that. Set the mono font to Liberation mono, which is also what the post editor uses. I wondered if the Linux Biolinum (mono) font looked better than the Libertinus mono, so tried it -- didn't like the look of it. One thing that stood out is how far to the left the "l"s (ells) were... kerned? (I don't know the proper font term, but they seemed to be offset to the left in their character slots.) -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.14.2 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G "If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
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