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I was using terminus, but I found it too thin for my tastes (or maybe for my bad eyes...) so I sought around and I read many persons like the Microsoft's Consolas and I have to say that it is indeed very nice. Probably MS should stop doing OSes and start drawings fonts only...
And so I wondered, what do you use? IMO a terminal font should be, readable, monospaced (doh) and a little thick.
Of course if you do not use the terminal this post is not for you.
Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-09-20 10:36:52)
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I was using terminus, but I found it too thin for my tastes (or maybe for my bad eyes...) so I sought around and I read many persons like the Microsoft's Consolas and I have to say that it is indeed very nice. Probably MS should stop doing OSes and start drawings fonts only...
I never saw this particular font, but I second that, fonts is the only thing MS do well imo
And so I wondered, what do you use? IMO a terminal font should be, readable, monospaced (doh) and a little thick.
Of course if you do not use the terminal this post is not for you.
terminus
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Liberation mono 12
---for there is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so....
Hamlet, W Shakespeare
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inconsolata
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DejaVu sans mono 9
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I was using terminus, but I found it too thin for my tastes (or maybe for my bad eyes...)
I know what you mean. I really like terminus, but when you look really long at a thin font, white on black, (maybe flatscreen has something to do with it (1280x1024)), it tends to appear to blink really fast. Or as if it's swirling around.
I made the background a bit lighter and foreground a bit darker and that made the problem less severe.
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Terminus.
Cthulhu For President!
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According to my terminal settings... Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Roman 11 - I think Roman means no italics or bold. Only thing I liked on my laptop screen although I have turned down sub-pixel hinting to medium since then so maybe there is better.
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Last edited by Allan (2007-09-20 14:02:19)
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urxvt.font:xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10
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urxvt*font:: -*-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
urxvt*boldFont:: -*-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
urxvt*italicFont:: -*-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
urxvt*boldItalicFont:: -*-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Because bold/italic terminus doesn't look too good.
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Some time ago, i used really small fonts, like bleed2, smooth or tixus. Now i mostly switch between terminus in size 12 and bitstream vera sans 8, dpi 96x96.
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Terminus here too...
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+1 for terminus....This is a poplular font.
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Terminus is nice, but my eyes can't handle the fine print these days... I just switched to DejaVu Sans Mono 11px and I already notice a change for the better.
Last edited by thayer.w (2007-09-21 03:52:52)
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wterm*font: -*-dejavu sans mono-10-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=10
Please please please please! If there's anyway for me to use BItstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=10 in wterm let me know! I have tried so hard but can't get it working properly. I think it looks very sexy, albeit small as hell.
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Terminus ftw!
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MonteCarlo Programmer Font all over my desktop.
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mutze, which file format of MonteCarlo do you use? Mac TTF, Linux PCF or Windows FON?
thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca
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While mutze is taking his time to answer...
I've just tried the PCF version and it's very nice (very small, but that doesn't bother me).
Good find mutze! I think I still prefer terminus, but I'm a bit torn at the moment...
Last edited by fwojciec (2007-09-21 14:35:32)
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I use Terminus or smoothansi from the artwiz package. Smoothansi looks great, but sometimes I just want something a bit "plainer". Recently I"ve been doing Terminus though.
As an aside, I like thin fonts, but if I go for thick, BVSM and DejaVu are my next choices.
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+1 for Inconsolata, in my own, slightly FontForge'd version. I found the single quote and the backtick to be too similar, and it also lacks some characters that I needed (can't remember which ones, I think it was the en- and em-dashes). Now it's perfect.
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ezzetabi wrote:I was using terminus, but I found it too thin for my tastes (or maybe for my bad eyes...)
I know what you mean. I really like terminus, but when you look really long at a thin font, white on black, (maybe flatscreen has something to do with it (1280x1024)), it tends to appear to blink really fast. Or as if it's swirling around.
I made the background a bit lighter and foreground a bit darker and that made the problem less severe.
That's it! in fact I am using Consolas in the notebook where the resolution is 1680x1050...
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I really like ProggyTiny, but all the Proggy Fonts are really great.
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I'm using Luxi Mono.
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xterm -sb -fg white -bg black -geometry 80x24 -fs 9 -fa ariali
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