cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2011048

For years I’ve been using DejaVu fonts, but in the last years I had the feeling that this project had been abandoned. And indeed it has.

Does anyone know of good open-source alternatives?

I’ve heard of GNU Unifont, which seems still alive, but it isn’t the kind of font one would use for, say, slides or websites.

Liberation and Kurinto were interesting (though not au par with DejaVu, in my opinion), but seem to have been abandoned as well.

I’m tired of Google and personally am not interested in fonts commissioned by them.

  • stravanasuOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    All three best, but also dropping either sans or serif would be OK :)

    • @odradekEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Ok, some suggestions (sorry, didn’t bother to check the characters in the monospace)

      ibm plex - sans, serif & mono

      Source sans, serif & code

      Fira sans and Mono, code version too

      Pt fonts sans, serif& mono

      Noto mega family. I know, google, but…

      • stravanasuOPEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Wow the IBM Plex family looks really amazing. How come I’ve never heard of it?

        • @odradekEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          It’s one of my favorites! Fira is also nice, and I use Fira Code for coding

      • stravanasuOPEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Thank you once more. I didn’t know the first three, will check them.

        The DejaVu family was (still is in many situations) great because it ticked all those points.