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I wish there were a great monospace font with extensive Unicode symbol support. DejaVu seems to support a lot of math symbols. But it's far from being perfect

by fafner 14y ago

I wish there were a great monospace font with extensive Unicode symbol support. DejaVu seems to support a lot of math symbols. But it's far from being perfect. My favourite fonts Inconsolata and Adobe Source Proc support barely anything beyond latin1. So I usually end up with some ugly font mix due to fallback. (Of course if you want all of Unicode and hate yourself there is GNU Unifont. edit: Just checked and Unifont only supports all of BMP.)

demetris 14y ago
Maybe Droid Sans Mono or Liberation Mono? They both have an extensive range of glyphs but I am not sure about math symbols.
- demetris 14y ago
  Replying to myself... For anyone interested, here are two screenshots showing the Mathematical Operators blocks of Liberation Mono and Droid Sans Mono in the current Debian Sid: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003357-debian-math-fonts-liberation-mono.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003357-d... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003523-debian-math-fonts-droid-sans-mono.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003523-d...
- fafner 14y ago
  Droid Sans Mono's 0 and O look too similar. Which makes it useless as a programming font.
shared4you 14y ago
Try out FreeMono, thousands of glyphs. Almost entire BMP. Excellent coverage as well [1]. Looks reasonable on my Emacs [2] [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html [2]: http://i.imgur.com/gTk5H00.png http://i.imgur.com/gTk5H00.png
derleth 14y ago
Hey, I like GNU Unifont! What's wrong with it? http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html Terminus is nice, too, I suppose: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html Inconsolata is popular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
tomse 14y ago
I used DejaVu for a math symbols app, and it covered every symbol required http://mathsymbols.net/ http://mathsymbols.net/ The main problem was Apple products, surprisingly. It's crazy the iPad and iPhone don't have better Unicode support!

by fafner 14y ago

demetris 14y ago

Maybe Droid Sans Mono or Liberation Mono? They both have an extensive range of glyphs but I am not sure about math symbols.

demetris 14y ago
Replying to myself... For anyone interested, here are two screenshots showing the Mathematical Operators blocks of Liberation Mono and Droid Sans Mono in the current Debian Sid: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003357-debian-math-fonts-liberation-mono.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003357-d... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003523-debian-math-fonts-droid-sans-mono.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/390716/20130412-003523-d...
fafner 14y ago
Droid Sans Mono's 0 and O look too similar. Which makes it useless as a programming font.

shared4you 14y ago

Try out FreeMono, thousands of glyphs. Almost entire BMP. Excellent coverage as well [1]. Looks reasonable on my Emacs [2] [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html [2]: http://i.imgur.com/gTk5H00.png http://i.imgur.com/gTk5H00.png

derleth 14y ago

Hey, I like GNU Unifont! What's wrong with it? http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html Terminus is nice, too, I suppose: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html Inconsolata is popular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

tomse 14y ago

I used DejaVu for a math symbols app, and it covered every symbol required http://mathsymbols.net/ http://mathsymbols.net/ The main problem was Apple products, surprisingly. It's crazy the iPad and iPhone don't have better Unicode support!