Your favourite fonts choice and why? thread

[charlesroper]

Big fan of Atkinson Hyperlegible here. The legibility really is great.

Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute

There’s a great presentation from its designers here:

[charlesroper]

Some of my favourite monospace / coding fonts:

Cascadia Code ← What I use in my terminal

JetBrains Mono ← What I use in VS Code and other editors

Iosevka ← Fantastically comprehensive and space efficient

Anonymous Pro ← A classic, but no ligatures

For maximum fun, check out Nerd Fonts, which aggregates many of the popular open source fonts and adds a whole bunch of new glyphs and icons into them:

Nerd Fonts - Iconic font aggregator, glyphs/icons collection, & fonts...

Finally, https://www.programmingfonts.org/ is useful for discovering and trying out over 100 programming fonts.

[AblingerOscar]

For edit mode I use “JetBrains Mono” as I think it’s the cleanest monospaced font
For preview mode I go with “Montserrat” (body) and “Open Sans” (headers) as I just like how they look like together.

[mgmeyers]

After months of tweaking and testing, I found Lora to be my fav for every-day writing. I couldn’t really tell you why, other than it’s aesthetically pleasing and easy to read (to me, of course). Also, there’s something about using a serif font that makes my notes easier to scan.

[AtrusRiven]

The most important question: Does the font you want to use contain all characters you use in your field of research?

• Does the font include other writing systems, e.g.:
  • Greek ελληνική γλώσσα
  • Hebrew עברית
  • Arabic اَللُّغَةُ اَلْعَرَبِيَّة
  • Sanskrit संस्कृत
  • Japanese/Chinese 日本語/漢語
• Do you need diacritical marks, e.g. when working with transliterations, e.g.:
  • Prajñāpāramitā
  • Ḫirbet ez-Zerāqōn
  • Kuntillet ʿAǧrūd
  • zhǐguǎn dǎzuò
• Do you need mathematical or philosophical-logical characters?
  • (A ∧ B) ∨ ¬(A ∨ B) ↔ ¬(A ∧ B)
  • ∌≌≡⊆

By the way: Does anyone know how Obsidian handles fallback fonts?

[Chetachi]

Oh, Lora is SUCH a gorgeous font. Do you use it throughout the entire app, or just for the body?

[dustin]

For editing I use iA Writer Quattro GitHub - iaolo/iA-Fonts: Free variable writing fonts from iA it’s one of the reasons iA Writer is one of my favorite writing apps.

For preview, I have Fira Code for code blocks, San Francisco (apple system) for body text and Publico Headline for headings.

[mgmeyers]

Just for the body. I use -apple-system for everything else so obsidian blends in more with the os!

[PhucLe]

From the discussion on Cascadia’s github, it leads me to Recursive font, absolutely gorgeous.

[a_wue]

@PhucLe Thanks for the tip! Great font. Do you know how I can change text and headings in Obsidian to this font? I installed @mgmeyers Style Settings-plugin, entered as Base Font Recursive, sans-serif, but nothing changes. Any idea?

[Chetachi]

So Style Settings is a plugin for theme creators, plugin developers and css snippet makers to use to make their creations easily customizable. Are you using a particular theme that has support for Style Settings? It may be that their commenting wasn’t properly formatted or that something is overriding it.

[mgmeyers]

Hmm, strange. I downloaded and installed Recursive and it seems to work just fine using the default theme Style Settings config:

Do other fonts work for you?

[a_wue]

I use the ‘Red Graphite’ theme. Now I tried it with the standard theme (in the Help vault), but that also doesn’t work.

[a_wue]

I see in your picture that you simply have ‘Recursive’ in the textbox, and the font has changed. That doesn’t work for me. But when I look at the fonts list e.g. in Word (on Windows), there are many ‘Recursive’ fonts, like ‘Recursive Mn Csl St’, ‘Recursive Mn Lnr St’ etc. I don’t have a font with the name ‘Recursive’ alone. Could that be the problem? (Sorry for the maybe simple questions, but I don’t have experiences with font handling.) Thanks!

[mgmeyers]

Yeah, that could be it. I just installed this single variable font. But it may work differently on windows. Like you said, you may have to use one of those other font names

[incumbent]

I just love it. I spend a lot of time in terminals and I just prefer monospace type in general. I like Karla as well, someone mentioned that already.

I like Operator Mono as well. Especially Italic.

[emmaamelia]

Obsidian is good I’m also using it. My most favourite one is Open Sans because I offer typography services and most of my clients like it. I also like to explore other fonts. Sometimes I also use Soin Sans Pro for headings and Georgia for body text.

[Scribe]

I use “Ivy Mode” for Heading and Vault fonts, “Recursive Sans Casual” for normal text, and “Recursive Mono Casual” for code. The reason for these selections is because they appear easily readable to me.

[Philipp]

I really like the Cascadia Mono Font:

[ayrtonsom]

I was about to start a typography topic, but I’m glad to find there’s already one open. I was unaware there had been such development in the market of monospace fonts, and I really want to try some of the ones you guys suggested.

I’m somewhat of a typography nerd and I have two rather opinionated looks which I’ve been really enjoying lately: the first is Times New Roman, with an all white theme and those 1991 HTML vibes. This is basically my palate cleanser, because I tend to spend lots of time customizing Obsidian just because I can, which can be rather distracting and time consuming. I tend to revert to this when I have a font-related itch and I just don’t have time to fix the CSS or try a newer and fresher typeface.

And my actual favorite vault font as of now is Archivo, an amazing grotesque sans-serif by an Argentinian type-foundry. I love it because it has a lot of weight and width variants, so I set it up to:

• Extra Condensed for my h1, because I tend to use phrases (like Nick suggests) and this allows me to fit them in less lines.
  • I also use Extra Condensed for the UI, which is the real game changer, because I work on a small 17" monitor and this allows me to keep my sidebars really narrow. When I’m working fullscreen, I get to have them both open at the same time without affecting the line width of my main note.
• Expanded for the h2 and Extra Condensed uppercase for h3, so I can easily differentiate them without huge point size differences.
• Regular for my text, because I don’t like getting fancy with my body text, and Archivo has a good x-height which makes for great readability.