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I always want the best fonts for my terminal, my text editor, my ... But I'm not satisfied easily, so I keep trying new fonts. Prefer free fonts of course :D

TLDR:

On macOS, prefer San Francisco. Remember each time macOS release new version/new update, you should download again to get (maybe) latest version.

Otherwise:

• Use Inter for display.

Taste:

• If macOS choose OTF, otherwise choose TTF format.
• Choose static font over variable font.

My standard for choosing fonts:

• Support Vietnamese
• Support bold, italic
• Has dotted zero 0, because I dislike slashed zero

Manually install fonts:

• macOS directory: ~/Library/Fonts
• Linux directory: ~/.local/share/fonts

JetBrains branding font.

• Use ligatures ss02 cv04 cv18

Font is narrow, can display much more on small screen.

I have custom build Iosevka Pacman for my own use.

For fancy terminal, only need NerdFontsSymbolsOnly.

• Fira Code: legend, best ligatures.
• Input: legend.
• Monoid: legend.
• Fantasque Sans Mono: handwriting vibe, beautiful italic.
• mononoki: share same vibe with agave.
• Hermit: unique and sharp look.
• M+: love japanese vibe, pick M PLUS Code Latin, M Plus 1 and M Plus 2 different is subtle.
• agave: small fonts, beautiiful curved look.
• Sudo: small fonts.
  • Use ligatures: cv06 cv08
• Recursive: pick Casual variant.
  • Designing Recursive
• Annotation Mono: handwriting vibe, beautiful italic, love wide look.
  • Use ligatures: liga, ss01, onum
• Ubuntu Sans Mono and Ubuntu Sans: nostalogic to me since first Linux distro I use is Ubuntu.
• Cascadia Code: Microsoft branding font.
• Monaspace: GitHub branding font.
  • A LETTERMATIC CASE STUDY: MONASPACE
  • Use ligatures: calt, liga, ss01, ss02, ss03, ss06

• Shantell Sans: another Comic vibe.
  • The Story of Shantell Sans

Costing money fonts, but I like them too much, will probably buy it if I have money:

• PragmataPro
• Name Mono and Name Sans:
  • The Story of Name Sans
  • Use ligatures: dlig, zero, ss03, ss09, ss10, ss11, ss12

• Hyperglot
• FontGoggles
• LCDF Typetools

• Better font rendering in linux
• No more blurry fonts in linux