Proportional Font Recommendations?

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Often times when font discussions pop up they are centered around mono-spaced fonts since many people here use terminal programs more heavily and/or program frequently.

I've found a mono-spaced font I'm happy with, but for a few gui programs (FireFox, Thunderbird, PCManFM on occasion) it makes more sense to have a proportional font instead. I've been using Liberation Sans, but I was curious as to what fonts you use in those stuations or if you use mono-spaced fonts globally?

Posted May 31, 2016, 2:48 PM UTC

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coleiferArch•10 yr. ago

Futura is a perennial favorite of mine. Other geometric sans like Poppins, quicksand, questrial, josefin (all google fonts) will also look nice.

Futura: http://i.imgur.com/z0veURv.webp and http://i.imgur.com/l7yt0LX.webp

Poppins: http://i.imgur.com/YUfK52A.webp

deusmetallum•10 yr. ago

I've found Clear Sans to be extremely nice. I think I'd go a bit mad having monospace fonts for everything

https://01.org/clear-SANS

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Chapo_RougeGentoo•10 yr. ago

+1 for Roboto & Deja Vu

lemons__•10 yr. ago

+1 for +1 for Roboto & Deja Vu

1-21GigawattsAntergos•10 yr. ago

I've always liked the Adobe fonts.

Adobe Source Sans Pro for Sans Serif, Adobe Source Serif Pro for Serif, and Adobe Source Code Pro for monospace

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro

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KazroFox•10 yr. ago

Both of those are monospaced

gavsiuArch•10 yr. ago

Instead of looking for a nice monospaced font and a nice proportional font, we should list fonts that compliment each other. That's one thing I have trouble with.

Currently I'm using Fira Code/Fira for its ligatures, but I'm sure there are more elegant combinations.