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SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Already in the AUR as otf-suse and ttf-suse. :)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Silly question: what's the difference between the otf and ttf fonts?

Edit: thanks for the explainers!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As far as I understand it, TTFs are more basic, while OTF can have more features and glyphs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

OTF is a modern extended version of TTF, with more features. Downsides are it can be bigger in filesize and could even take longer to load. But that is not really relevant for modern computing and one should default to OTF, unless there is a good reason to use TTF variant (if both are available).

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

no dotted zeroes = no terminal use

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

I don't think this font was designed for the terminal. It's a sans font with some inspiration from monospace styling, but with focus of brand recognition and usage in headlines or text. That's what I'm getting here. Similar to what Ubuntu does with their font.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I don't see a monospaced version anyway

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not a fan of semi-serif fonts, and not digging the rounded "corners" on E and L (while having sharp ones in lowercase L and lowercase i), but it seems it is trying to be highly readable so indeed it should be great for UI stuff. And doing a complete typeface covering such huge character map is no easy job.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

I like it. Not gonna nitpick. It's nicer than those microsoft fonts that came out recently

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand how that hybrid is supposed to work. Monospace is a binary attribute; either all chars have the same width or not. So what is the font now?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It says that it s "inspired" by monospaced fonts. I imagine they mean stuff like the tiny serif on the lowercase i

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's a great question, on the face of it I can't find very much info online. Wikipedia has an entry for monotype but not hybrid. The page 'hybrid font' does not exist. If anyone has more info please feel free to tag me, I'd love to know.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I need more discussion on typefaces. Typography is one of my hyperfixations. :-)

P.S.: I meant "special interests", not hyperfixations.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

hyperfixations

You probably mean "special interest". Simplifying, hyperfixation is such a strong fixation on something that you absolutely can't think about anything else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Based on what I've seen from this person, this is all I ever seen them talking about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, this is the correct term, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is going on with that lowercase g?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s fairly standard for serif fonts like times new roman, baskerville, etc. Although it is uncommon in modern sans serif fonts and/or fonts designed to be viewed on a screen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Fira family has a similar fancy g for some reason

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Here in Germany at least, if you read almost any printed novel, the type face will include this type of g. It’s so common, that I didn’t realise it’d be strange for some people.

(Although I do recall seeing a post about a kid that was confused by that weird letter, somewhere a while ago. Probably was still back on r*****)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Huh, just realized that the r-word and “Reddit” have the same number of characters.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will give the font a try!

I'm not dyslexic, but I think legibility is super important and underrated on most distros. This one looks both aesthetic and very readable.

Do you know if it is already in the Fedora repos? If not, how can I install it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Personally just grabbed it from their release page: https://github.com/SUSE/suse-font/releases/tag/v1.000. Then dropped those files into my ~/.fonts, directory.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This will be a nice addition to my collection of fonts :3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome! Now how can I add it to Libreoffice?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same as any other font. Add it to ~/.fonts or /usr/local/fonts. You might also have something like font browser already preinstalled, and usually there’s an Install button

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's a nice font. I just have a hard time with trusting SUSE after the SUSE vs OpenSUSE debacle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't love it, but I also went in hoping for a possible new monospaced font to try out. It's nice to have options and maybe give Suse a slightly more distinct look I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Random recommendation, but I recently stumbled upon https://monaspace.githubnext.com, and it seems like a pretty cool approach to the whole "monospace font for dev work"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I like that idea of using the different fonts for e.g. Copilot suggestions - reminds me of reading Asterix comics as a kid when they'd use gothic black for the Goth's speech, etc.

edit: e.g.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember these when they came out, and I liked Neon and Krypton the most. I'm glad you linked it so others might get to see it though, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The idea of the github fonts is interesting, but I find it strange that the same letters next to each other can have different widths. I currently prefer the CommitMono approach.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's actually very much my kind of font, thanks a lot. At first glace I still prefer my current font (Liberation Mono), but I'll give it a test run and see how it feels after a couple of weeks. You can never tell right away if a font is a keeper.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I'm not a fan of the way the lowercase L's tail interacts with uppercase letters, but other than that it's not bad!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But does it have unicode emojis?

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Hmm it specifically seems to be missing emojis

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s a pretty good looking font. I think that lowercase g might be distracting but it’s workable.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Looks nice, but I will keep IBM Plex Mono.

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