Recommended terminal fonts

XelKarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 84

So recent versions of xterm in unstable have implemented UTF-8 fallback, where it will use the user specified default font, but search for and use other fonts for codepoints the default doesn't define.

The font I've used for a while now is mononoki, but recently while trying to use the weechat url_hint plugin, I found the mononoki font seems to define superscript 1, 2, 3 codepoints but doesn't provide glyphs, preventing those from being overridden by other fonts.

You can see the issue in the following image at line 71.
https://ibb.co/SXVfzKd

The font hasn't been maintained in a while and I'm not sure how to fix it myself. I was wondering if anyone has any similar fonts to recommend.

mike155 · Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:08 pm Post subject:

My favorite terminal font is Source Code Pro. Although I usually use konsole, I just started xterm

389292 · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2019 Posts: 504

There are a lot of such round fonts out there, they all look kind of similar, you don't like all of them?

XelKarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 84

Actually it looks like it was the Linux Libertine font that xterm was pulling in that was causing the problem. I ended up using DejaVu Sans Mono, which I used to use a while back. Trying it again I think I like it better than mononoki, and it provides its own superscript glyphs.