Favorite Bitmap Fonts and themes

Programming@beehaw.org – 4 points – 1 years ago

Howdy guys! Just like most of you, I have been in a never ending quest to find the perfect font and the color theme. Did you guys ever find what you were looking for?

I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with what I have right now, But I am very happy with the current font I am using. You can see it in the picture. It's called 'Grey beard'. The color theme is 'Sonokai'.

If you guys used bitmap fonts as well, what are your favorite color themes? Even if you don't use bitmap fonts do you have any good suggestions?

Thank you! And have a wonderful day!

A few retro bitmap fonts (converted to TTF or OTF):

PC: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ (tons of fonts)
Commodore 64: http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/c64/ (and others in the family)
Osborne I: https://beej.us/fonts/Osborne1.ttf

Edit:

Wargames font for good measure: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1317339/wopr

Can't say I'm too fancy these days. If we are including all fonts: Fira-Mono or Consolas for me. I like ligatures visually but can't stand them while coding or in my terminal.

Theme-wise I used to use Monokai or Dracula but these days I am content with the default vscode dark theme. Of course, I've got to have Numix and dark gtk/adawaita for my xfce4 desktop.

I tried Fira code and Fira Mono a few months ago, did not like them much. I should give a chance to consolas, I might like it. Oh I see... thanks! Oh you are on XFCE that's cool! I have it installed as well. With XFCE I used a theme called Chicago95, very retro like. I love it. These days I just use DWM, very minimal.

Chicago95, awesome! I love the retro style. I've never checked out DWM but I used to use i3wm. Loved the power. However, I always keep going back to xfce. It's just the most comfortable for me.

I'm currently using the Hack font and a color scheme I made by editing Material Darker. I'm happy with the color scheme but I'm having trouble getting certain parts of my desktop to follow it.

Sounds interesting! Are we going to be lucky enough to see a screenshot of it?

It's not much but I will post later

Thanks! we might be able to get some inspiration out of it.

So far I've only themed GTK with Oomox, Rofi, Kitty, and CSTimer. Currently priority is QT Flatpaks, where It seems the only option is Kvantum.

Man the hack I remember didn't look this good. BTW what is the DE or WM you are using? Love your setup looks very clean!

Hyprland, Thanks! Are you using some sort of Neovim config or did you set it up yourself?

Oh, hyprland! Very nice! I set it up by myself. Previously I tried a couple of configurations like NvChad and Astronvim. But it's just much better to do it by myself. Now I only have what I need installed so the system is very fast.