For years I’ve been using DejaVu fonts, but in the last years I had the feeling that this project had been abandoned. And indeed it has.

Does anyone know of good open-source alternatives?

I’ve heard of GNU Unifont, which seems still alive, but it isn’t the kind of font one would use for, say, slides or websites.

Liberation and Kurinto were interesting (though not au par with DejaVu, in my opinion), but seem to have been abandoned as well.

I’m tired of Google and personally am not interested in fonts commissioned by them.

    • stravanasu
      OPMEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      I had forgotten about this one! One problem for me with the monospaced is that there’s little difference between capital O and zero 0. But the proportional ones are very functional.

      • recursive_recursion [they/them]AEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        tbh I also think that’s a problem I have with Freesans

        When I can afford it I’ll probably hire someone to remake the 0 with a diagonal slash in the center and make the capital O a perfect circle just scaled up

    • stravanasu
      OPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      That’s another one I didn’t know about – thank you! I’ll check it out.