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The main advantage of this sort of font is that you can see the pixels. This may not be to all tastes, but at ~95dpi I find pixelly fonts easier on the eye. The
by to3m 11y ago
The main advantage of this sort of font is that you can see the pixels. This may not be to all tastes, but at ~95dpi I find pixelly fonts easier on the eye. The right angles and hard edges seem to make it easier for my eyes to get the right focus setting.
I usually use the 6x13 font from here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html - all the Unicode you can eat!
(I think it's nicer than the 6x13 SGI one (Screen 13pt on OS X) which is a bit cramped-looking. The 7x14 SGI one (Screen 14pt on OS X) is much better - looks like basically the same glyphs as 6x13, but with an extra pixel breathing room.)
- mhd 11y agoI'm quite fond of non-antialiased fonts on regular DPI monitors flipped to portrait orientation, secondary ones on machines where that means VGA output. And lacklustre TN panels on laptops. Some environments really need more forgiving technology…
- userbinator 11y agoThe right angles and hard edges seem to make it easier for my eyes to get the right focus setting. I agree; when I first used an LCD, the best part of the experience was how sharp everything looked. On a CRT the pixels were somewhat blurry no matter what, but the LCD made the pixels actually look like little squares and it felt like my eyes were in focus. I can stand antialiasing on large fonts but small text looks better to me without AA, and subpixel AA just makes me feel dizzy since my eyes seem to be continually trying to focus to get those sharp edges. Misc-Fixed is my favourite font too, although I've modified mine with a slashed zero to make 0 and O more distinctive.