What braille font is recommended?

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What braille font is recommended? #783

Open mid-kid opened 7 months ago

mid-kid commented 7 months ago

Currently only GNU freefont can draw braille on my system, but suffice to say it doesn't render braille very nicely. afbeelding

However, I'm not really aware of any other font that's widely available in every linux distribution and can draw the braille.

Can there be a small, incomplete list of recommended/tested fonts for this program?

edwloef commented 7 months ago

DejaVu Sans Mono has good looking braille symbols imo. It's available as a package in the official Arch repos, though I can't say whether your distribution packages it.

mid-kid commented 7 months ago

@edwloef I have DejaVu Sans Mono installed:

$ fc-list | grep -i dejavusansmono
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique

But for some reason, it doesn't seem to be rendering braille for me. When I remove freefont, things show up like this:

chrio commented 7 months ago

Since I already had powerlevel10k installed, I am using the reccomended fonts from their font guide which is Meslo Nerd Font patched for Powerlevel10k and it is working really well together with btop.