Hello, I’ve been using Obsidian for the past months and I’m genuinely interested in what fonts do you use?
Did you stick one’s which came with the theme?
I’m using Obisidan for my personal vault and also for the project, but what I miss to have is fonts that could fit needs and I’m curious about some curated choice of Obsidian community.
I’m looking in some font with ligatures which helps me a faster reading, writing and through glyphs it less noises my brain.
I’m using Firacode is VScode which is great tho, I’ve tried to load it to the Obsidian but turns out, it’s probably not so great for writing.
The fonts you mentioned are coding fonts and Obsidian is not for coding. Monospaced fonts are not designed for readable texts (though some people use them as such). I like the default font of Obsidian very much: it’s clean and not so old-fashioned and deprecated as Arial. The italics could be better but that’s always the problem with sans-serif fonts.
Another good choice for me would be Open Sans (or Noto Sans).
I like Source Code Pro for monospace - I use it in code blocks and for everything in Editor mode.
I use Source Sans Pro for normal text out of Editor mode. To be honest I haven’t given the non-monospace font as much thought and just went with what went with Source Code Pro
I LOVE Karla for text/body. It’s a playful and unique font that I seriously wish I could mirror in handwriting (my handwriting is pretty illegible). I am also starting to use a font called Karmilla, a fork of Karla that adds support for other languages and includes some of the glyphs missing in Karla. Then my go-to for monospace would have to be Space Grotesk.
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:
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.
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.
@PhucLe Thanks for the tip! Great font. Do you know how I can change text and headings in Obsidian to this font? I installed @mgmeyersStyle Settings-plugin, entered as Base FontRecursive, sans-serif, but nothing changes. Any idea?
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.
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!
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
