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Change default monospace font #92

Open jepotter1-archive opened 6 years ago

jepotter1-archive commented 6 years ago

Terminal and Code currently look slightly underwhelming and boring. In my opinion, using a cool monospace font like Fira Code would really make them stand out in terms of aesthetics.

jepotter1-archive commented 6 years ago

Looks like the font is currently Roboto Mono.

For comparison:

Roboto Mono image

Fira Code image

stlee42 commented 2 years ago

Traditionally, font design has been a weakness of open source projects.

These days, there are open source (SIL licence) options for open source projects.

These include corporate sponsored such as IBM Plex Mono, Adobe Source Code Mono, and open source corporate sponsored such as JetBrains Mono, Firefox Fira Code Mono, and Ubuntu Mono, as well as traditional open source option such as Bitstream Vera Mono.

Among the best is Microsoft Cascadia Code, which has three advantages:

  1. It includes support for Powerline symbols by default as well as code ligatures and OTF style options such as slashed zero versus dotted zero.
  2. It includes superior support for multiple languages such as Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew.
  3. It is optimized not for paper printing, but square-based pixel display (at low resolution as well as TTF hinted displays)

So I wonder if Elementary OS projects will consider switching default mono font for terminal to Cascadia Code Powerline edition, and what work it would involve for me.

Thanks

stlee42 commented 2 years ago

it looks like https://github.com/elementary/fonts/tree/master/roboto-mono will have to be updated as well.

"debian/elementary-default-settings.gsettings-override" is also outdated in favor of "gtk-monospace-font-name" in "gtk/settings.ini"

I think we are looking for

gtk-monospace-font-name = Cascadia Code PL 10