I choose to standardize my interfaces on an opinionated font preference, using Vulf Mono and its sibling Vulf Sans, in most places I can get away with expressing a preference. These fonts were commissioned for Vulfpeck's website, an ascii-art band site for a bunch of funky nerds1. It's a really fun font, and variable-width variant is nice to use in most places. It's available for sale reasonably priced from the foundry, and I use it for my systems and sites. I do, unfortunately, feel a bit tied to fixed-width fonts in spite of the development of Vulf Sans in Emacs, whether or not I am writing code or processing data. There's too many rough edges, text editing quibbles, etc, that you have to deal with when your text is variably-set.
(defun cce/set-font-vulf ()
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Vulf Mono")
(set-face-attribute 'fixed-pitch nil :family "Vulf Mono")
(set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :family "Vulf Mono" :slant 'oblique))
(add-hook 'after-cce-hook #'cce/set-font-vulf)
(provide 'cce/vulfpeck)Vulfpeck fonts on My NixOS configuration
A derivation for Vulf Mono.
{ pkgs, lib, stdenv, ...}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name="vulfpeck-fonts";
src=/home/rrix/sync/vulf-mono.zip;
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.unzip ];
phases = [ "unpackPhase" ];
unpackPhase = ''
mkdir -p $out/share/fonts
unzip -d $out/share/fonts/truetype $src Desktop/*.otf
'';
meta = {
homepage="https://ohnotype.co/";
license = lib.licenses.unfree;
platforms = lib.platforms.all;
};
}A derivation for Vulf Sans.
{ pkgs, lib, stdenv, ...}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name="vulfpeck-fonts";
src=/home/rrix/sync/vulf-sans.zip;
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.unzip ];
phases = [ "unpackPhase" ];
unpackPhase = ''
mkdir -p $out/share/fonts
unzip -d $out/share/fonts/truetype $src Desktop/*.otf
'';
meta = {
homepage="https://ohnotype.co/";
license = lib.licenses.unfree;
platforms = lib.platforms.all;
};
}I configure My NixOS to use Vulfpeck fonts where I can, and fall back to the free fonts otherwise:
{ pkgs, ... }:
let
vulf_mono = pkgs.callPackage ../lib/vulfpeck.nix {};
vulf_sans = pkgs.callPackage ../lib/vulfpeck-sans.nix {};
in
{
fonts = {
fontconfig.defaultFonts.monospace = ["Vulf Mono" "Deja Vu Sans Mono"];
fontconfig.defaultFonts.sansSerif = ["Vulf Sans" "Deja Vu Sans"];
fonts = [ vulf_mono vulf_sans ];
};
}