# Recommendation for a font with good Unicode support?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recommendation-for-a-font-with-good-unicode-support/39885
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**Tags:** fonts
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recommendation-for-a-font-with-good-unicode-support/39885 "2020-05-21T15:21:06Z")
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### Author: ![sijo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sijo)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recommendation-for-a-font-with-good-unicode-support/39885/8 "2020-05-22T08:54:54Z")

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I did some tests on Ubuntu 20.04, in the Gnome terminal and in the browser (e.g. Jupyter in Chrome or Firefox) and Juno. It appears that

- some fonts work well in the terminal but not in the browser
- some work well in the browser but cannot be selected in the Gnome terminal

Here’s a summary, testing for support of combining hat character on greek letters, such as "θ̂ " (obtained with `\theta\hat`).

| Font | Version (head/name) | Gnome Terminal | Browser/Juno | Open license |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bitstream Vera Sans Mono | 2.000/1.10 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Cascadia Code | 2005.150 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Consolas | 1.000 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Cousine | 1.220 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| DejaVu Sans Mono | 2.370 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Fira Code | 4.000 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Go Mono | 2.008 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Hack | 3.003 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Inconsolata | 3.001 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Iosevka | 1.000/3.0.1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| JetBrains Mono | 1.000/1.0.3 | ✔ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Latin Modern Mono | 2.004 | N/A | ❌ | ✔ |
| Liberation Mono | 2.100/2.1.0 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Linux Libertine Mono O | 5.100/5.1.7 | N/A | ❌ | ✔ |
| Menlo | 6.100/6.1d5e14 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Monaco | 2.000/5.1d1e1 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Nimbus Mono PS | 1.000 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Noto Mono | 1.000 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Noto Sans Mono | 2.002 | N/A | ✔ | ✔ |
| SF Mono | 0.000/15.0d5e1 | ✔ | ✔ | ❌ |
| TeX Gyre Cursor | 2.004 | N/A | ❌ | ✔ |
| Ubuntu Mono | 0.800 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔ |

So on my system at least, the winners are **Fira Code** and **SF Mono** (edit: and **Iosevka** ). They’re the only fonts that work both in the terminal and in Jupyter and Juno. I find SF Mono a bit nicer but the license seems to be very restrictive (though I couldn’t find any licensing information in the dmg file downloaded from Apple’s website).

Now I can write

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/7/e73d6447da54d3e10c5fd153d0a5ab4a2da6ab95.png)

😃

Edit: It looks like some font files have conflicting metadata between the “head” and “name” tables (fontRevision and Version fields respectively). I’ve put both versions when they don’t agree.

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