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#1 2009-05-17 09:09:35

Rasi
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Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

*Update* look last post...


Hello.. i have a bit of a hard time, getting urxvt use a different color for intense coloring.

See this screenshot to know what i mean:

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As you can see, Konsole shows a different color for intensity, where urxvt simply uses the foreground color.
Question: Can urxvt be configured to act the way konsole does? Chatting is not the same without this... smile

Last edited by Rasi (2009-05-19 13:53:21)


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#2 2009-05-17 09:39:42

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Are your color7 and color15 different in .Xdefaults?

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#3 2009-05-18 12:14:10

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Procyon wrote:

Are your color7 and color15 different in .Xdefaults?

rxvt*foreground: #B0B0B0
urxvt*background: #101010
urxvt*color0: #101010
urxvt*color1: #f13a21
urxvt*color2: #93f91d
urxvt*color3: #ffd00a
urxvt*color4: #004f9e
urxvt*color5: #ec0048
urxvt*color6: #2aa7e7
urxvt*color7: #f2f2f2
urxvt*color8: #1d202f
urxvt*color9: #ff361e
urxvt*color10: #ffc005
urxvt*color11: #93ff00
urxvt*color12: #0071ff
urxvt*color13: #ef0051
urxvt*color14: #4bb8fd
urxvt*color15: #000000

urxvt is not using color7 for the channel names tho.. it uses the value of urxvt*foreground (according to gimp color picker)


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#4 2009-05-19 13:52:36

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Ok, it seems that Terminus does not allow intense colors at a size smaller than 14px - no clue what magic Konsole does there.

Anyway, this leads to me needing a font that looks sharp at 10px and allows intense colors in addition...

Recommendations? I tried Monospace and dejavu-mono but they are very blurry..


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#5 2009-05-19 13:56:42

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

What about Monte carlo?

http://bok.net/MonteCarlo/

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#6 2009-05-19 14:31:47

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Rasi wrote:

I tried Monospace and dejavu-mono but they are very blurry..

For crisp fonts make sure you don't set the font size in pixels, like so…

URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10

Instead do it like this…

URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-7

It's subtle but I have found it always gives clearer results.

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#7 2009-05-19 15:39:25

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

You may want to try:
http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download
http://damieng.com/creative/typography/envy-code-b

Andale Mono (from ttf-ms-fonts) might work as well, as the microsoft core fonts are pixel-grid optimized. You may want to turn off antialiasing for small fontsizes tho.

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#8 2009-05-19 17:43:40

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

[OT]C'mon, Rasi, in five years w/ staring at screen 12+ hrs/day you won't need fonts smaller than 14 :-)[/OT]
Have you checked your DPI settings? (Anti)Aliasing?

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#9 2009-05-19 18:22:31

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Inconsolata is an ease for your eyes. This font should be used anti-alised.
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#10 2009-05-19 19:39:39

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

hmm.. proggyfonts is quite nice, i might get used to it - but its not half as crisp as terminus sadly...

the others all are a bit blurred with and without AA, so out of question...

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#11 2009-05-19 21:17:47

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Try out Dina-font as well. It's very crisp,

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#12 2009-05-20 13:29:18

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

I'd still suggest playing w/ hinting, AA etc. You should be able to do this by just adding a couple short lines to your .Xresources. Pick the font(s) closest to your expectations and give it a ride.

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#13 2009-05-21 11:10:10

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

I got best results with these settings, although on a white background display:

URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:antialias=true:pixelsize=11
URxvt*boldFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:style=bold:antialias=true:pixelsize=11
URxvt*italicFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:style=italic:antialias=true:pixelsize=11
URxvt*boldItalicFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:style=bolditalic:antialias=true:pixelsize=11

And switching to rxvt-unicode-256color from AUR did solve all my coloring problems.


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#14 2009-05-31 14:03:00

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

N30N wrote:
Rasi wrote:

I tried Monospace and dejavu-mono but they are very blurry..

For crisp fonts make sure you don't set the font size in pixels, like so…

URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10

Instead do it like this…

URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-7

It's subtle but I have found it always gives clearer results.

Where did you learn about the -NUM for font size? I just tried it and I like the results, but I didn't see it in the manpage.

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#15 2009-05-31 16:47:49

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Re: Need a good looking Terminal font for small text (10 pixel)

Inconsolata is nice.

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