Fonts

• Recursive – a five-axis variable font. This enables you to freely adjust Monospace, Casual, Weight, Slant, and Cursive.
• 10 Best fonts for improving reading experience
  • Merriweather, Montserrat, Pluto Sans, Tisa, Droid Sans, Playfair Display, Minion, Open Sans, Bookerly, Literata
• Atkinson – hyperlegible font by the Braille Institute
• Did you know Fonts could do all this? (Patrick Louis, 2020)

Many fonts have Free¹ clones as alternatives. Instead of paying huge sums for "standard fonts", the Open Source font community recreated those to be freely used in any kind of project. The following table suggests some Free fonts nearly identical or at least similar to paid fonts.

• programming fonts test drive
• Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
• Go Fonts
  • mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts && cd /tmp && git clone https://go.googlesource.com/image && cp -v image/font/gofont/ttfs/*.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/ && fc-cache -fv
  • available for LaTeX (Fedora: texlive-gofonts)
• Nerd Fonts
  • BitstromWera Nerd Font Mono

These look good in papers or books and are optimised for pleasing aesthetics and readability of long texts.

• Charis SIL – designed to make long texts pleasant and easy to read, even in less than ideal reproduction and display environments.

• PT Serif

• Fedora: https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts

copy files to ~/.local/share/fonts and run fc-cache -fv in your favourite terminal.

double click font and click install.