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Introducing SUSE Typeface: SUSE’s new open sourced font

www.suse.com Introducing SUSE Typeface: SUSE’s new open sourced font

Ivo Totev and Spencer Davis Creating a typeface is a de...

SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)

Linux @lemmy.world Sunny' 🌻 @slrpnk.net 12 hr. ago

Introducing SUSE Typeface: SUSE’s new open sourced font

www.suse.com /c/introducing-suse-typeface-new-open-sourced-font/

37 comments

I need more discussion on typefaces. Typography is one of my hyperfixations. :-)
I like it. Not gonna nitpick. It's nicer than those microsoft fonts that came out recently
What is going on with that lowercase g?
- That’s fairly standard for serif fonts like times new roman, baskerville, etc. Although it is uncommon in modern sans serif fonts and/or fonts designed to be viewed on a screen.
Looks nice, but I will keep IBM Plex Mono.
no dotted zeroes = no terminal use
- 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.
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?
- 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.
I don't understand how that hybrid is supposed to work. Monospace is a binary attribute; either all chars have the same width or not. So what is the font now?
- It says that it s "inspired" by monospaced fonts. I imagine they mean stuff like the tiny serif on the lowercase i
  
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- That's a great question, on the face of it I can't find very much info online. Wikipedia has an entry for monotype but not hybrid. The page 'hybrid font' does not exist. If anyone has more info please feel free to tag me, I'd love to know.
That’s a pretty good looking font. I think that lowercase g might be distracting but it’s workable.
- The correct term would be typeface ☝️🤓
Already in the AUR as otf-suse and ttf-suse. :)
- Silly question: what's the difference between the otf and ttf fonts?
  
  Edit: thanks for the explainers!
  
  As far as I understand it, TTFs are more basic, while OTF can have more features and glyphs.
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!
- The "fi" combination also seems problematic since they seem to intersect.
  
  That's a ligature, it's deliberate.
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.
- Random recommendation, but I recently stumbled upon https://monaspace.githubnext.com, and it seems like a pretty cool approach to the whole "monospace font for dev work"
  
  I remember these when they came out, and I liked Neon and Krypton the most. I'm glad you linked it so others might get to see it though, thanks!
- Try this: https://www.programmingfonts.org/
  
  I've used it in the past, thanks for reminding me of it though.
Tried it on Gnome, didn't look the greatest. The numbers in the time were really close to the colon in the top panel. Very well could just be a Gnome issue though, the way it handles fonts is weird.
Not a fan of semi-serif fonts, and not digging the rounded "corners" on E and L (while having sharp ones in lowercase L and lowercase i), but it seems it is trying to be highly readable so indeed it should be great for UI stuff. And doing a complete typeface covering such huge character map is no easy job.
i fw it
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