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I was thinking about changing my personal website's font to a monospaced one. Anybody know which ones are particularly good for long-form text readability? Bo
by mxstbr 2y ago
I was thinking about changing my personal website's font to a monospaced one.
Anybody know which ones are particularly good for long-form text readability?
Bonus points if it's on Google Fonts.
- sampullman 2y agoIBM Plex Mono is pretty good, with a reasonable license. It's on Google Fonts, and the repo is here: https://github.com/IBM/plex https://github.com/IBM/plex
- mroche 2y agoI'm a fan of the Red Hat font family, i.e. Red Hat Display, Red Hat Text, and Red Hat Mono. They are available via CDNs, font providers, and directly from Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/typography https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/typography
- kiennt26 2y ago[dead]
- daemonologist 2y agoI'm partial to Drafting Mono - https://indestructibletype.com/Drafting/ https://indestructibletype.com/Drafting/ - for paragraph display. Not on Google Fonts but it's free (or very cheap for the variable version).
- mikae1 2y agoIts SIL licensed. Free and open source.
- notpushkin 2y agoAside, but please consider using https://fontsource.org/ https://fontsource.org/ instead of Google Fonts: just as easy to use, and no tracking (at least from Google).
- sham1 2y agoTo be fair, the person could still use Google Fonts, but just download the font and host it themselves. The font licenses allow this. You get the upsides of being able to pick a nice font from Google Fonts while not having the downside of tracking. It also helps with caching! And also prevents the font from disappearing for no reason.