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23meg
November 20th, 2006, 09:18 AM
I'd like suggestions for freely available monospaced fonts that look good at small sizes (9-10px font size on a 96dpi 1400x1050 15 inch LCD) for terminal emulator and text editor use, because I'd like to quit using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Andale Mono and Lucida Console, with none of which I'm satisfied. If you have any favorites please throw them at me.

Fonts I like tend to have smooth features, and be well hinted to look good when rendered by Freetype to an LCD screen,

xyz
November 20th, 2006, 11:11 AM
How about:

ProFont for Windows, Mac, Linux (http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/)
proggy_fonts (http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download&sort=size)
I'm no expert,though!

shining
November 20th, 2006, 01:00 PM
Terminus is my favorite one. But it's a bitmap font, which are universally hated (not without valid reasons) :)

So it's either Terminus, or Bitstream Vera Mono (or DejaVu Mono, which looks the same) for me. And well, Andale Mono when I go the ms way.

I don't think there is a lot of quality fonts anyway. It's basically either bitmap fonts, or microsoft fonts, or Bitstream Vera/DejaVu + antialiasing.

adam.tropics
November 21st, 2006, 08:16 AM
Trying Luxi Mono at the moment....liking it!

23meg
December 21st, 2007, 09:37 AM
I don't know why or how I lost track of this thread and forgot to reply to it; it's going to be a major bump, but for the record, I found one that looks pretty good with Ubuntu 7.10's subpixel rendering: Inconsolata (http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html). It's in Universe (click to install (apt:ttf-inconsolata)).

Thanks to everyone who replied.

bonzodog
December 21st, 2007, 06:47 PM
I personally use Liberation mono for my mono fonts. The liberation fonts are very nice and sharp.

matthew
December 21st, 2007, 07:35 PM
I don't know why or how I lost track of this thread and forgot to reply to it; it's going to be a major bump, but for the record, I found one that looks pretty good with Ubuntu 7.10's subpixel rendering: Inconsolata (http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html). It's in Universe (click to install (apt:ttf-inconsolata)).

Thanks to everyone who replied.Thanks! I hadn't seen that one before. It's nice.

bruce89
December 21st, 2007, 07:47 PM
LaTeX fonts (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/typewriterfonts.html), nice for printing.