debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My own mind went to the place of thinking sans serif was about those >> very lines. I just didn't make it to thinking that would make it hard >> to find any alternate in that family. My long time preference is >> developer-weary-eye-friendly fonts-anonymous-pro for whatever >> applications will accept it. Found it accidentally a few years ago. >> Its differences are noticeable enough that I instantly miss it on new >> operating system installs. The "apt-cache show" description for >> fonts-anonymous-pro specifically references both 0 v. O and I v. l v. >> 1: "Description-en: fixed width font designed for coders This package >> contains two Font Families. - Anonymous Pro - Anonomous Pro Minus . >> 'Anonymous Pro' is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed >> especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for >> one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them >> easier to tell apart in the context of source code. > Terminal fonts tend to be fixed width since that's a property of > terminals. Fixed width fonts tend to have serifs because it's easier > to make the spacing look more even between inherently narrow > characters and inherently wide ones using details like serifs. So > finding a sans serif font amongst terminal fonts is likely a difficult > cause.
The font I have in Gnome terminal is called 'Monospace'. It doesn't have serifs generally, but there is on I and l, and on J. And the 0 has a dot in it. The Gnome Tweaks program has a font selector which shows 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', searching for 'sans' I found only 'Noto Sans Mono Regular' which distinguished the I and l.
