Change default monospace font

[jepotter1-archive]

Terminal and Code currently look slightly underwhelming and boring. In my opinion, using a cool monospace font like Fira Code would really make them stand out in terms of aesthetics.

[jepotter1-archive]

Looks like the font is currently Roboto Mono.

For comparison:

Roboto Mono

Fira Code

[stlee42]

Traditionally, font design has been a weakness of open source projects.

These days, there are open source (SIL licence) options for open source projects.

These include corporate sponsored such as IBM Plex Mono, Adobe Source Code Mono, and open source corporate sponsored such as JetBrains Mono, Firefox Fira Code Mono, and Ubuntu Mono, as well as traditional open source option such as Bitstream Vera Mono.

Among the best is Microsoft Cascadia Code, which has three advantages:

1. It includes support for Powerline symbols by default as well as code ligatures and OTF style options such as slashed zero versus dotted zero.
2. It includes superior support for multiple languages such as Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew.
3. It is optimized not for paper printing, but square-based pixel display (at low resolution as well as TTF hinted displays)

So I wonder if Elementary OS projects will consider switching default mono font for terminal to Cascadia Code Powerline edition, and what work it would involve for me.

Thanks

[stlee42]

it looks like https://github.com/elementary/fonts/tree/master/roboto-mono will have to be updated as well.

"debian/elementary-default-settings.gsettings-override" is also outdated in favor of "gtk-monospace-font-name" in "gtk/settings.ini"

I think we are looking for

gtk-monospace-font-name = Cascadia Code PL 10