Re: [emacs-humanities] Introduction and Fonts

[Case Duckworth]

Krishna Jani via Emacs-humanities writes:

> Well that was a simple introduction now coming to the real reason I
> wrote this email. When I saw the emacs-conf address by @acdw, I saw he
> was using this cool retro looking font called Go Mono and I subsequently
> began to use it. But recently I am wanting a change and I thought if the
> members of this community could recommend some fonts they use.

Matthew Batson via Emacs-humanities <emacs-humanities@gnu.org> writes:

> So I'm also interested to find out what others here are using for
> writing.

Hi yall,

acdw here ;) Krishna, I'm glad you liked the video, and Go Mono /is/
pretty great :D  The problem is that Go, the sans-serif version, is far
too thin for my tastes---and I do actually intermingle monospaced and
variable-pitched font daily in my Emacs; comments for example are
variable-pitch, and when I write prose for work I write in
variable-pitch.

So I've spent a very long time looking for a pair of fonts that are the
same height and look pretty good together.  I tried Nicholas Rougier's
pairing of a custom Roboto Mono, Victor Mono  (I really like the cursive
italic!) and whatever the other one was, but I couldn't get the
line-heights to quite match up, which became distracting when I had
variable- and fixed-pitch fonts on the same line.  I used IBM Plex for a
while, as well as various forms of Iosevka (including Prot's version,
*Comfy*) ... but right now I've settled on the bog-standard DejaVu Sans
and DejaVu Sans Mono.

I might have to check out Source Code / Sans Pro again though ... I have
to be careful playing with fonts because it tends to eat up LOTS of time :P

--
Hugs,
Case Duckworth
https://www.acdw.net
https://breadpunk.club/~breadw