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SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)

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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Already in the AUR as otf-suse and ttf-suse. :)

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Silly question: what's the difference between the otf and ttf fonts?

Edit: thanks for the explainers!

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As far as I understand it, TTFs are more basic, while OTF can have more features and glyphs.

[–] thingsiplay 28 points 5 months ago

OTF is a modern extended version of TTF, with more features. Downsides are it can be bigger in filesize and could even take longer to load. But that is not really relevant for modern computing and one should default to OTF, unless there is a good reason to use TTF variant (if both are available).

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

no dotted zeroes = no terminal use

[–] thingsiplay 31 points 5 months ago

I don't think this font was designed for the terminal. It's a sans font with some inspiration from monospace styling, but with focus of brand recognition and usage in headlines or text. That's what I'm getting here. Similar to what Ubuntu does with their font.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I need more discussion on typefaces. Typography is one of my hyperfixations. :-)

P.S.: I meant "special interests", not hyperfixations.

[–] Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I will give the font a try!

I'm not dyslexic, but I think legibility is super important and underrated on most distros. This one looks both aesthetic and very readable.

Do you know if it is already in the Fedora repos? If not, how can I install it?

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 months ago

Personally just grabbed it from their release page: https://github.com/SUSE/suse-font/releases/tag/v1.000. Then dropped those files into my ~/.fonts, directory.

This will be a nice addition to my collection of fonts :3

[–] Cornflake_Dog@lemmy.wtf 6 points 5 months ago

That's awesome! Now how can I add it to Libreoffice?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 5 months ago

It's a nice font. I just have a hard time with trusting SUSE after the SUSE vs OpenSUSE debacle.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But does it have unicode emojis?

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Hmm it specifically seems to be missing emojis

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a latin font.

Designing all unicode characters would be madness.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks. I imagine most unicode characters and emojis are just copied over from some default font?

Maybe they'll patch it into a https://www.nerdfonts.com

[–] HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s a pretty good looking font. I think that lowercase g might be distracting but it’s workable.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 5 months ago

The correct term would be typeface ☝️🤓

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't love it, but I also went in hoping for a possible new monospaced font to try out. It's nice to have options and maybe give Suse a slightly more distinct look I suppose.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I've used it in the past, thanks for reminding me of it though.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not a fan of the way the lowercase L's tail interacts with uppercase letters, but other than that it's not bad!

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 5 months ago
[–] daqu@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

Looks nice, but I will keep IBM Plex Mono.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I think it is a beautiful font, but I feel like I can not read it as well as others fonts in my high DPI small font (or basically anything small) setup.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It looks gorgeous. Can't wait to use it in my desktop.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Been using it myself since it launched, been loving it so far! Got it active on everything except my terminal.