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

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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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

I recently found out about int10h.org and right away installed one to both work and home computers (PxPlus IBM VGA 16x9). Has been my "latest favourite thing" this website.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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] 0 points 1 year ago

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] 0 points 1 year ago

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] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm currently using the Hack font and a color scheme I made by editing Material Darker. I'm happy with the color scheme but I'm having trouble getting certain parts of my desktop to follow it.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sounds interesting! Are we going to be lucky enough to see a screenshot of it?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's not much but I will post later

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks! we might be able to get some inspiration out of it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So far I've only themed GTK with Oomox, Rofi, Kitty, and CSTimer. Currently priority is QT Flatpaks, where It seems the only option is Kvantum.

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

Man the hack I remember didn't look this good. BTW what is the DE or WM you are using? Love your setup looks very clean!

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

Hyprland, Thanks! Are you using some sort of Neovim config or did you set it up yourself?

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