You can get it from Google fonts which means you can easily download / import it into another application if that helps. One of the other replies also linked another source. I just provided the official link because they have a nice rationale on the design choices.
There are too many to mention since there's so much out there.
You can go to a font website like dafont and perform a search for a font or browse different themes/styles and specify in the results that you want Public domain / GPL / OFL fonts.
Almost all of my fonts are released under an attribution license, so they're free for commercial use and remixing.
Agave. My favorite monospace/programming font. What I like best about it is how the baseline isn't where the descenders begin. Makes it look unique in a nice way.
OpenDyslexic is less good for most dyslexics than you think. It's based on some ideas of what might be useful rather than specific evidence. I recomend Sylexiad instead. Particularly Sylexiad Sans rather than Serif, but it's all about finding what works best for you.
M+ 1m has been my daily monospaced font ever since I found it, which is about eight years now. I don't see it come up often when people talk about monospaced fonts.
I see lots of links here but no reasons why each is underused or anything.
Look, I'm a simple person, what I ask of a font is:
differentiate your symbols — I'm talking 1, l, I, and i with more than a single pixel difference at 11pt 90DPI, and the 0 should be clearly less round than O
be readable. No extra thinness, fancy swirls... look at any default font as an example (Arial or whatever), or most people's custom web font as a counter-example
proportionally spaced. I like \thinspace as thousand separator and I cannot lie
indefinitely usable (for example as part of a game) after a single purchase that I can do as a consumer. Or free/donationware of course
A very tall order I know. So far I've reviewed a bunch of fonts (I wasn't procrastinating why do you ask) and found PT Sans is the best option I've seen, so I'm using it, but I hate its Q. It's basically an O with a tilde below it.
Any better options if all you want is clarity and normalcy?
Edit: near the bottom of the replies there's Hyperlegible. Somehow I had read over that. Seems to check the boxes! I'll be looking at this closer on my computer later.
It's freeware not open source but I like Monofur. Might not be the most beautiful font but I find it very legible and the distinction between similar characters is quite good. It's available in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories too.
I'd say several fonts on Google Fonts (the only place I know lol) are pretty good. I don't see them mentioned anywhere and I'm not a font enthusiast per se, so I'd call them less known. Some of my favourite - Courier Pro, Doto, Sono, SUSE Mono, Josefin Slab, and Martian Mono.
And a couple others default on my Windows PC that I like: Bookman Old Style, Yu Gothic (Fun fact - this font was used by the hit anime Neon Genesis Evangelion for their english title cards) and wierdly enough, Segoe UI. I love that Windows 8 aesthetic it brought.
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ratel@mander.xyz · 52 pts · 276d
I love this hyperlegible one from the Braille Institute: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 276d
I'm going to see if I can get this on my Kobo. Thank you for the link!
2910000@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d
Ooh there's a monospace version too
DetachablePianist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
this is the way
TheBat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 276d
chelatna@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 276d
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
I use this, it's good.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 275d
do any applications contain them by default? As much as I like the fonts my email is to much a price to pay given the fonts I use are fine.
ratel@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 274d
You can get it from Google fonts which means you can easily download / import it into another application if that helps. One of the other replies also linked another source. I just provided the official link because they have a nice rationale on the design choices.
randombullet@programming.dev · 1 pts · 274d
It doesn't take my duck.com alias
Pirate@feddit.org · 1 pts · 275d
Came looking for this comment! It’s my favorite font of all time. So clean and legible.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 276d
Do I really need to give them an email to download? Why?
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 5 pts · 275d
They're part of my Linux distro's repo. ttf-atkinson-hyperlegible and otf-atkinson-hyperlegible.
Windows mirror: https://font.download/font/atkinson-hyperlegible
trk@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 274d
You can just type any old bollocks in there and it reveals the download links.
ratel@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 275d
IDK I'm not affiliated with them but maybe use a throwaway email alias.
coreray00@discuss.online · 33 pts · 276d
Shout out to 0xProto! Texture healing in a monospaced font is super cool!
tuckerm@feddit.online · 5 pts · 276d
Interesting! I hadn't heard of this before, I'll have to check it out.
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 275d
and actually useful ligatures to boot! neat.
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
Rad!
mechanismatic@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 276d
There are too many to mention since there's so much out there.
You can go to a font website like dafont and perform a search for a font or browse different themes/styles and specify in the results that you want Public domain / GPL / OFL fonts.
Almost all of my fonts are released under an attribution license, so they're free for commercial use and remixing.
https://michaelwmoss.com/typefaces
SpaceXplorer_8042@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 276d
Definitely a lot of fonts I'd very much like using whenever I need a new font next. Thanks!
chunes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 276d
Agave. My favorite monospace/programming font. What I like best about it is how the baseline isn't where the descenders begin. Makes it look unique in a nice way.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d
Merriweather is great for longer texts. I use it in all book reader apps.
Anonymous Pro is my coding font of choice.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 275d
I second the Anonymous Pro!
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 275d
For those who love comic sans I might have bad news: you might be borderline dyslexic.
Switching to OpenDyslexic 3 helps
TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 275d
OpenDyslexic is less good for most dyslexics than you think. It's based on some ideas of what might be useful rather than specific evidence. I recomend Sylexiad instead. Particularly Sylexiad Sans rather than Serif, but it's all about finding what works best for you.
tuckerm@feddit.online · 4 pts · 276d
M+ 1m has been my daily monospaced font ever since I found it, which is about eight years now. I don't see it come up often when people talk about monospaced fonts.
amos@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 275d
This is a new one: https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna/
lucg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 275d
I see lots of links here but no reasons why each is underused or anything.
Look, I'm a simple person, what I ask of a font is:
A very tall order I know. So far I've reviewed a bunch of fonts (I wasn't procrastinating why do you ask) and found PT Sans is the best option I've seen, so I'm using it, but I hate its Q. It's basically an O with a tilde below it. Any better options if all you want is clarity and normalcy?
Edit: near the bottom of the replies there's Hyperlegible. Somehow I had read over that. Seems to check the boxes! I'll be looking at this closer on my computer later.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 275d
I don't know it it's underused, but my go to for years gas been League Spartan from The League of Moveable Type
MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 276d
Comic sans.
tuckerm@feddit.online · 4 pts · 276d
Literally the only thing we miss out on when ditching Windows.
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
Muli !
My favourite
Search at http://openfontlibrary.com/
theherk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
Victor Mono
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 2 pts · 276d
Ärzte Sans (edit: missed the open source part. I can't verify that)
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 276d
Looks to be.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 2 pts · 276d
Huh til theres an aur package, I just plunked it in my fonts directory
kshade@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
It's freeware not open source but I like Monofur. Might not be the most beautiful font but I find it very legible and the distinction between similar characters is quite good. It's available in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories too.
SpaceXplorer_8042@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 276d
I'd say several fonts on Google Fonts (the only place I know lol) are pretty good. I don't see them mentioned anywhere and I'm not a font enthusiast per se, so I'd call them less known. Some of my favourite - Courier Pro, Doto, Sono, SUSE Mono, Josefin Slab, and Martian Mono.
And a couple others default on my Windows PC that I like: Bookman Old Style, Yu Gothic (Fun fact - this font was used by the hit anime Neon Genesis Evangelion for their english title cards) and wierdly enough, Segoe UI. I love that Windows 8 aesthetic it brought.
blurb@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 274d
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
I really like Open Sans
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 275d
Comic Neue
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 1 pts · 275d
This doesn’t add anything to the post, so, sorry, but this is a really good question! Thanks for contributing!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
What open source don't should I use for high compatability and legibility?
jordanlee91@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 219d
Found this font identifier tool that works pretty well https://whatthefont.app/
jordanlee91@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 219d
https://whatthefont.app/ Found this font identifier tool that works pretty well