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>>107240339
>Hate reading books
>Reading a single book would take me up to an entire year
>Got a kindle
>Jailbroke it
>mfw scamazon's bookerly font fixed my reading habits
>Read 17 books this year
I used to think that fonts were just a graphic design meme but goddamn, readability really does make a difference

>FONT THREAD
for printing on paper? otherwise you need 24" 4K display or to zoom web pages.

>>107240339
Garamond on paper.
TBD on small screens
It depends on the projector for large screens but in general something sans serif.
We have known all of this for decades

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>>107240339
>most readable
>single story a

pic unrelated, my two favs right now

The older I get the more I realize that font choice rarely matters. A 4K monitor will always be better for clarity than a font crafted by the angels themselves on a shitty 1080p panel.

>>107245300
I barely noticed you're honestly right I will edit it maybe
Bricolage is a little too blocky for me, I think I have dyslexia or something, those tight crotches also look like ass on cleartype which is the only way to use a webshit font as a ui font without bawling your eyes out

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Although I prefer the cleaner look of MS Gothic, when doing QA for my translation projects, I almost always set the text to MS Mincho since at the size I usually use (12px), for some reason, it feels easier to catch mistakes during long sessions.

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>>107241205
Check out the other corpo's font it's slightly less fat and glyphs are more distinct amongst each other in my opinion

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GNU Unifont

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This is the entire book of Fellowship of the Ring, you will need to place your face very close to the screen

>>107249708
nice

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I like IBM Plex, because it has wide coverage, mono, sans, and serif, and I think it looks pretty nice.
I like some other fonts too, but for my system I like being able to have everything consistent even across different forms. The only font I found with equivalent coverage was Noto, and I didn't like that as much.
I also like being able to check my outputs are in the right font by looking for the double storey g.

https://www.programmingfonts.org/

>>107246627
Noto Sans or Atkinson Hyperlegible are good choices for you then. Good distinguishable humanist typefaces that look good.

>>107252488
I've been switching between this and atkinson for a while now, unrelated but fuck furryfox and modern web

There are three main ways of setting a font in a browser that I found:
First cancer is lying to the DOM and rendering with user selected fonts, firefox does this when unchecked 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts...' BUT it has issues like that it for some unexplicable fucking reason applies to extensions (even popups) and that it cannot be managed per site.

The second cancer is to use userstyles BUT we live in the market fetishistic world of today and unless you pretend to be the perfect replica ZOG drone you can be near unique and trackable anywhere you go by fonts alone so in order for the browser to preserve a semblance of privacy it has to restrict what fonts the javascript engine is allowed to see (usually stock windows fonts), this is of course CANCER because the fonts you installed are literally in the literal meaning of literally transcendent to the renderer rendering your hopes of setting a font in vain.

The third cancer is the sketchiest one and it is basically a combination of denying remote fonts and denying local fonts thereby making the browser panic and fallback to whatever it can even if it violates the sites' css, this is of course CANCER because it's even less wieldy than the first one and I haven't actually been able to do this without sandboxing which is a shame because it's such a slimy niggerlicious hack it makes me smile.

I was recommended Ioveska and gruvbox color theme a few weeks ago after I made a similar thread. Very happy with it. End game setup.

>>107250785
Ah damn you were faster. I was about to shill this one too.

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>>107250539
is that ttf or bitmap GNU Unifont?

>>107240339
Great thread so far. Don't you die on me

Helvetica masterrace

>>107254902
Tourist, if you want a good screen font that has that gay neo-grotesque look use SF Pro, or it's ripoff, Inter.

i miss the lower DPI era where I could get away with Terminus everywhere.

>>107240339
Isn't this Graphics Design related topic more or less?

>>107254986
zoom in dumb faggot

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>>107250580
This is a cute idea but it's basically impossible to read

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Caskaydia Cove is my go-to, though I really only use its mono fonts. I feel like a lot of "nerd" fonts can be rather obnoxious. Caskaydia minimizes that while still looking nice. Only real problem is that it lacks language support -- but who wants to real moonrunes anyway.

>>107249708
>>107250785
How do you make these pictures

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>>107255115
just gotta decode it

ttyp0

>>107250580
Just zoom in nigga.

How do you approach font selection? Do you just make your website and then try out different fonts to choose what looks more stylish?

>>107255719
>do you need a monospace font?
no -> Comic Sans MS
yes -> Comic Mono

>>107255594
zoom it to 100% scaling nigga and look really close it's a subpixel font

>>107255197
I took mine from the png preview of the svg used as the image on Wikipedia for IBM Plex.
>>107253647
Gotta be quick to advertise for big company for free. Sorry anon. :¬)
Really though, it is a nice font. Glad you like it too.

>>107255719
i test in my terminal emulator

>>107254867
I remember when font threads were common here.

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I like Berkeley Mono for monospace

>>107261152
tryhard font

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>>107255736
always relevant

i like inter (sans serif) and times new roman (for serif) but i'll do some experimenting with more soon. my vision is shit so even the smallest of improvements would help a lot.

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>>107255719
If you're talking about actual websides, there's like a dozen good free fonts. If you owe some, you know what you own. Pretty much that. You can read about typefaces e.g. why are serifs usually used for books.

misc fixed 6x13 i.e. -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

>>107255547
post the rest?

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>>107262789

>>107261152
Let's see it at 12pt

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>>107246775
that's a very old font

>>107240339
Vollkorn is good for reading. I'm using it in koreader on all my devices
Mononoki is a great monospace font, IMO, better than IBM Plex

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>>107264503
>Vollkorn
Nice, love to see the trend in recent serifs to be fatter and more suitable for, get this, reading, which is the main function of text.
People somehow forgot that the function of serifs is to make text prettier and more readable by a human not to look woo profesional.
The essay will be in Liberation Serif because that's the default freetard font and I will not compromise.

If you like comfy humanist monospace fonts then you should also check out this absolute kvno: https://github.com/protesilaos/aporetic

>>107265342
>>107250785
>>107249708
Is there an Illustrator template for these or something? Who is making hundreds of these?

>>107266022
Probably yes, but as mentioned they are from Wikipedia. They likely have a generator or use a specific template.

>>107266022
>>107266214
I looked a little more into it and here you go:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Typeface_samples_(Font_Specimen_Creator)

>>107266224
sweet thank you

>>107266224
http://shell.aiei.ch/typography/mkspecimen
looks like this is the actual thing

>>107250580
>This is the entire book of Fellowship of the Ring
>the entire book
No way, really? What's the use case?

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>>107255719
Most of the time, I'm looking for coding fonts, so I load up some code and documentation in an Emacs frame and try different fonts out.

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#maple
https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font

>>107266371
novelty

Noto Sans, it displays the correct moonrunes.

>>107240339
no cross bars on upper case i is a deal breaker.

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>>107253620
>Ioveska
fuck that looks really good

>>107255115
It's using the RGB channels of the monitor to display at sub-pixel resolution.

>>107240339
My favorite fonts:
>Crimson Pro
>IBM Plex font family
>FiraGO font family
>Ubuntu font family

>>107269328
>Ioveska
love it. default font for ghostty
jetbrains mono too

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Mactype supremacy (please make it support windows title bars my chinese daddies)

Are there any font megapacks of say pre-1980 typefaces? I mean digital reconstructions of the fonts used in printed material. I don't want "inspired by" type things, I want an exact copy. My usecase is digitizing old children's books and having the font match.

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It's EB Garamond and Google Sans Code for me.

>>107272957
name of the colorscheme used in doom emacs?

>>107273306
modus-operandi-tinted

>>107272957
What are you using to read ebooks?

>>107273424
A computer.