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Re: Favorite Font

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Favorite Font
Date	2025-04-13 16:32 +0000
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:33:09 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <vtgau8$2soia$1@dont-email.me>:

> L Thorpe wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> This is not a frivolous issue.
>>
>> There are many fonts available on GNU/Linux but the only font that I
>> continually select for all my GUI apps and even virtual terminals is
>> the Liberation family:
>>
>> https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
>>
>> IMO, the Liberation fonts are the best and every other font seems quite
>> ugly or unsatisfying in comparison.
>>
>> Liberation also has extensive Unicode coverage but that is not the main
>> point of concern.
>>
>> To me, this is unusual.  Why should one font family be so far ahead,
>> aesthetically speaking?
>>
>> Surely there are other candidates but I have found none that appeal to
>> me so greatly as does Liberation.
>>
>> What are the experiences of others?  What are YOUR favorite fonts for
>> general application use, especially in word processors or text editors?
>>
>> I am tempted to exclude all the dozens of GNU/Linux fonts except for
>> Liberation.  Do you feel the same?
> 
> I use Terminus in my terminal windows, conky, and gvim. Also in xfce,
> though I don't run that at the moment. I haven't yet bothered to update
> my favorite Fluxbox themes to use terminus.
> 
> In GUI apps I use whatever the themes support.

I was already using Liberation Sans Mono in my terminal windows,
but in Pan, I was using Noto Sans Regular/Mono.

On a whim, I changed Pan to use Liberation.  The text looks more "stark",
but I've noticed URLs are now underlined.  However, misspellings are no
longer underlined with squiggly red, they are just underlined in red
with straight underlines.  Interesting.

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.

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              Re: Favorite Font John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-17 12:34 -0700
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