Fonts

Last updated Mar 3, 2024

I have a love for nice fonts.

• Atkinson Hyperlegible (mentioned Your favourite fonts choice and why? thread - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum )
• iA Writer Quattro
• Inter - Default of Obsidian and used also at Airbyte website
• Fonts - DYSLEXIA which makes reading easier for people with problems (from Tobias Schäuble)
• Piazzolla, serif; from How to treat monospace alike fonts in a tech blog? - Pimp my Type
  • Piazzolla Type System
• Gentium Book Basic, serif: Discovered on Why Write?, beautiful .
• Also beautiful: SN Pro ( origin)

Atkinson Hyperlegible vs Piazzolla:

Updated fonts in Obsidian:

Here are some tips for programming (from RW 15 Best Programming Fonts for Better Coding):

• Clear and easy-to-read characters to reduce eye strain when spending hours looking at hundreds of lines of code.
• Makes a clear distinction between commonly-confused characters such as the letter “O” and the number “0” or the lowercase “L” and the number “1”.
• Ligatures or extra whitespace for commonly-used symbols in popular programming languages – not for everyone, but others love it.
• Fonts with multiple variations on how certain characters are handled are great, so you can pick and choose exactly the version you prefer.

Testing out fonts: Programming Fonts - Test Drive.

• Iosevka - My current one, 14.7k start on GitHub 😳
• Source Code Pro for Powerline - Adobe open source
• Cascadia Code - default font for the Windows Terminal and Visual Studio
• Anonymous Pro for Powerline - I like
  • Four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.
  • Fixed width design.
  • Various computer keyboard symbols.
  • DOS box-drawing characters.
  • Extended language support for most Latin-based Western and Central European languages, as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
• Zed Mono looks nice too: GitHub - zed-industries/zed-fonts: The Zed Mono and Sans typefaces, custom built from Iosevka Origin

Some comparisons while testing:

A nice summary that has similar preferences that are similar to mine:

Some of my favourite monospace / coding fonts Link

• Cascadia Code 81 ← What I use in my terminal
• JetBrains Mono 63 ← What I use in VS Code and other editors
• Iosevka 128 ← Fantastically comprehensive and space efficient
• Anonymous Pro 57 ← A classic, but no ligatures

• Berkeley Mono (origin: This Tweet)
• Gintronic so far one of my favorite

A webapp to customize certain parts of the fonts: Iosevka Customizer.

More on Fonts on Websites.

Origin:
References: Writing, New Tabs in Obsidian with version 1.0
Created 2022-10-15