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Favorite Bitmap Fonts and themes (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Howdy guys! Just like most of you, I have been in a never ending quest to find the perfect font and the color theme. Did you guys ever find what you were looking for?

I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with what I have right now, But I am very happy with the current font I am using. You can see it in the picture. It's called 'Grey beard'. The color theme is 'Sonokai'.

If you guys used bitmap fonts as well, what are your favorite color themes? Even if you don't use bitmap fonts do you have any good suggestions?

Thank you! And have a wonderful day!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't say I'm too fancy these days. If we are including all fonts: Fira-Mono or Consolas for me. I like ligatures visually but can't stand them while coding or in my terminal.

Theme-wise I used to use Monokai or Dracula but these days I am content with the default vscode dark theme. Of course, I've got to have Numix and dark gtk/adawaita for my xfce4 desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried Fira code and Fira Mono a few months ago, did not like them much. I should give a chance to consolas, I might like it. Oh I see... thanks! Oh you are on XFCE that's cool! I have it installed as well. With XFCE I used a theme called Chicago95, very retro like. I love it. These days I just use DWM, very minimal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chicago95, awesome! I love the retro style. I've never checked out DWM but I used to use i3wm. Loved the power. However, I always keep going back to xfce. It's just the most comfortable for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Understandable. I too love XFCE I love it more with Chacago95! LOL I used i3 as well! Loved it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd say I prefer the flexibility of vector fonts. It costs money, but my favorite font is Cartograph CF. I chose it because of the combination of a cursive-style italic variant, and programming ligatures.

Another font that has both of those features rendered with a different style is Victor Mono. The cursive text in Victor is semi-connected which I enjoy. This one is free, but the author accepts donations to support the work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have heard good things about Cartograph. For a good font I would say spending some money is a good investment. Victor Mono was not my cup of tea though. Thank you for the suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like the Jetbrains Mono font!

Aa for a theme, I set up my Windows theme so it uses a dark theme at X time and a light theme at X time using the task scheduler. I now have Rider set up so it automatically uses the system theme (dark/light) and I am currently using the Solarized themes (I think both for light and dark themes though I've been switching my dark theme around a lot to try and find the perfect one so I'm not 100% sure XD). It automatically switches between the two depending on the time of day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh that's really cool! I tried installing solarized on my neovim. With typescript and rust it did not look very appealing to me. I suspect it was a little different from the solarized theme I had on VSCode, which looked very nice. I should try to find some better alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A few retro bitmap fonts (converted to TTF or OTF):

PC: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ (tons of fonts)
Commodore 64: http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/c64/ (and others in the family)
Osborne I: https://beej.us/fonts/Osborne1.ttf

Edit:

Wargames font for good measure: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1317339/wopr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Holy moly! Thank you so much! I am extremely grateful!