For programming, my favourite is DejaVu Sans Mono. There are many fancy ones out there with hip features like ligatures but I have always found DejaVu the most pleasing to the eye.
For reading, I like Roboto for sans serif. I find it is decently condensed yet easy to read. For serif, I like a paid font called Century Supra. I have pirated this font many times. I also like the serif fonts used by imperialist news outlets a lot as well. IIRC NYT’s is straight up called Imperial.
- Iosevka
- Anomaly Mono
- Monocraft / Miracode
- Tamsyn / Tamzen
- Cozette
- sqaps/sqreep/3x6
- Raize
- Spleen
- gr737b-9x16-medieval (See screenshot here)
- Vollkorn
- Libertinus
Bonus: CoronaFaceImpact (Interact here)
All the fonts I have mentioned are free and open source! They’re all licensed under the OFL license. I hope you like my suggestions :)
My favorite Serif fonts
My favorite Sans-serif fonts
My favorite Display fonts
My favorite Monospace fonts
Lexend. It’s a font designed with research to have variable widths to aid legibility.
There’s even an Arabic+Latin version called Readex Pro. There’s a really cool article documenting how they adapted variable widths to the unique connected structure of Arabic writing.
Both are freely available on Google Fonts.
Fira Code and JetBrains Mono
monofonto, aka the pipboy font
