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Medea
Medea

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Favourite fonts?

So I'm not great at picking fonts, you can tell that by seeing all of the websites I made.
What fonts do you really like and recommend me to use for my websites?

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Adam Crockett 🌀

You can't go wrong with Montserrat

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Questrial

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Medea

I’ll also try this out

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Oxygen

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Medea

And I’ll also try this out

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Ayyash

i hate monsterrat, its so wide it kills the elegance of any web app, my personal opinion :)

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I hate your personal opinion it's so wide it kills the elegance of my personal opinion 😂

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I don't actually hate anyone's opinions, it's a great thing to care about font design

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Medea

I’ll try this out

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Medea

I’ll check these out

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George Henrique

Roboto

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Medea

Yea many people have said that

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petestmarie

For IDEs and my personal documentation, Comic Code Ligatures. The Coding Essentials bundle is $30, but for me it's a small price to pay for something I'm looking at all day. I find it very easy to read.
tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

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Medea

I'll check it out, thanks!

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shammisharma

to name a few - Poppins, Montserrat, Raleway, DM Serif, Elephant.
When in doubt I always turn to these fonts 😁

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Richard Hart

Ralway! yeah I've been looking for a font with the extended "w", thanks!

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Medea

ill try these out!

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Richard Halford

Sans-Serif

Lexend

Severely unloved in my opinion for a slightly more "joyful" change from the same old Lato/Roboto, more structured sans fonts.

Serif

Gelasio

Metrics compatible with Georgia, but FREE.

Monospace

JetBrains Mono (Nerd Font)

Used to be Fira but it feels easier on the eyes and my preferred "g" style.

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Medea

I’ll try these out!

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Raí B. Toffoletto • Edited

Besides the common roboto from Google I really like Ubuntu font package. It's elegant and clear.

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Raí B. Toffoletto

and for the terminal/IDE the Source Code Pro .

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Medea

Yea I used to use Source Code Pro for everything before

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Medea

Yea I like the Ubuntu font too

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Manikandan

Inter, Montserrat, Work Sans, Archivo, Playfair Display, Poppins, Raleway, Lato.

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Medea

I’ll check these out

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Eljay-Adobe

For programming:

  • Fira Code
  • Input
  • IBM Plex Mono

Previously, my favorite programming font was Times Prog, which was a bitmap font (this was in the late 1980s) based on Times but reworked to be programmer friendly. It was a proportional font. I used proportional fonts for programming for about 27 years — inspired by Bjarne Stroustrup’s use of proportional fonts for programming — until I stumbled across Fira Code.

Input is also a proportional font, designed for programming. I was happy to migrate from my ancient Times Prog to Input. Times Prog was great back in the olden days (when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, according to my kids), but with the advent of vector fonts just became too long in the tooth.

I switched back to a monospaced font (Fira Code) when it impressed me with its programmer friendly ligature support. Incredible! (I'm aware of the other programmer ligature fonts. Fira Code works for me best of the bunch.)

There about another dozen fabulous programmer friendly fonts, that are monospaced. I don't use them, but they're really good. Consolas, Menlo, DejaVu Sans Mono, Inconsolata, Source Code Pro, and others.

For documentation, it depends on what I'm using it for. I do like Times, Georgia, Futura, and Optima.

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Medea

I’ll check these out

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LarrocaX • Edited

I think i am using a lot Nunito

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Medea

I’ll check that out

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LarrocaX • Edited

i use it from fonts.google.com

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Medea

ah okay, i use many fonts from there as well