What font is everyone using to render glyphs/symbols?

[mr-september]

I'm trying to incorporate some symbols to a set of keys to be generated, but most of them are just turning up as outlines of squares.

I thought this is because the font being used doesn't have those unicodes/glyphs, so I went to try 2 known for having comprehensive glyphs support (from some quick Googling): Noto Sans and Source Code Pro

Unfortunately, no luck, they're still square outlines.

Hopefully you guys could chime in on which font/packs are suitable?

Some symbols/glyphs I'm trying to use:
⎀ 🔇 ⏯ ⏮ ⏭ ⎌ ✂' ⎘ 📋⎈ ❖ ⎇

[fgebhart]

Hey, I was using DeJaVu font a lot in combination with the OpenSCAD customizer and the symbols at wikipedia e.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#By_block

It worked quite well for my purpose, although not all of them rendered as expected.

[iamkarlson]

How do you set what font to use? I got just a fresh OpenScad installed, and none of Unicode symbols works.

[fgebhart]

1. Follow this guide
2. within the customizer.scad file, there is a key value pair which is called $font=....
3. set $font="DeJaVu"
4. Render your key cap using F6 and export to STL using F7

Does that work for you?

[carina]

I also had to look up how to make this work. Per default, the example from the readme wasn't working for me:
dcs_row(5) legend("⇪", size=9) key();

This for example works for me on macOS:
dcs_row(5) legend("⇪", size=9, font = "STIXGeneral:Regular") key();
dcs_row(5) legend("⇪", size=9, font = "Inter:Regular") key();

This might be something you want to consider mentioning in the readme.