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[–] 46 points 12 hours ago (11 children)

I was talking about my tech hobbies (home server, mechanical keyboards, etc) with a workplace colleague and she asked me "so what's your favourite font". Had to say "I don't know, but I absolutely love that I've just been asked that question".

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  • [–] 12 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

    Consolas.

    I'm a big fan of monospace and I really like how none of the characters can be confused with any others.

    It's a decent looking font as well as very functional.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 hours ago* (2 children)

    ooo i love monospaces. my current favorite font is Mom's Typewriter


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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Other ones that are neat with that are Atkynson Hyperlegible (base, mono and Next), Fira Code and Iosevka.

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  • [–] 27 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    This one's got HUGE serifs.

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  • [–] 13 points 13 hours ago

    Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    Me: any font is fine, as long as it's readable

    Now I understand why I don't have friends on the fediverse :D

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  • [–] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    You know, I'm something of a Bank Gothic guy myself.

    No idea why.

    Most definitely not because I grew up on Stargate.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    As long as l and I look different, I'm happy

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago*

    I used to like going through interesting fonts, but now I want reasonable Unicode support in a font, and given the immense effort to cover Unicode, there aren't many out there. Yeah, falling back to other fonts for missing glyphs helps, but it's not as good.

    Probably different if you're a designer doing one image where you know all the text that you're gonna be using.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago

    I used firacode for my resume and so far no one has noticed enough to being it up lol.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago* (1 child)

    I heard about metric compatible fonts recently, which made me realize that I didn’t have to use Liberation Serif for everything

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    I didn't know the Font Club meeting was today! Where's Brick??

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Nothing beats Jokerman. Truly unhinged

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I agree with that guy, I don't like serif fonts.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    They have kerns for miles.

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    Mmm accessibility fonts are so hot rn

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    That Regular 400 Italic got enough curves to get me actin' up

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    I've just realised me and my partner probably judge fonts more than is strictly normal...

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Ubuntu mono is the best font

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    Nice shot, ace.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    I kinda like Futura in print. Enjoyed some books from maybe the 1940s that used it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)

    7520

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  • [–] 0 points 8 hours ago

    Something something humanist something...

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