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I could really use a serif monospace font for coding and terminals. Haven't found a good one yet. EDIT: Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and
by cm3 10y ago
I could really use a serif monospace font for coding and terminals. Haven't found a good one yet.
EDIT: Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance.
- octref 10y agoOperator[0] [0]: http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator
- pygy_ 10y agoFor my terminals, I use MingLiU, on OS X. It's primarily an Asian scripts font, and the roman characters are monospaced. There's little difference between O and 0 or l and 1, though, so I don't use it for coding, but it's good enough for my use of the terminal. http://i.imgur.com/mAq8b5b.png http://i.imgur.com/mAq8b5b.png Luxi Mono isn't bad either, but the capital o and the zero are almost pixel for pixel identical, which is a deal breaker for me. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Luxi-Mono https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Luxi-Mono
- vertebrate 10y agoHave you tried Luxi Mono or Linux Libertine Mono?
- cm3 10y agoWill try again, but it didn't look as clean and sharp as Terminus, Fixed or even DejaVu Sans Mono.
- madfriend 10y agoPT Mono?
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- cm3 10y agoI had the same issue as with any other TTF font that's not DejaVu, meaning foggy rendering.
- Usul 10y agoTake a look at The Oldschool PC Font Resource http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ There a some quite good monospace font with serifs. I use them a lot at my terminals, reminds me of the good old days ...
- cm3 10y agoThanks, IBM EGA9 and CompaqThin look nice.
- coldtea 10y ago>Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance. Where by "crystal clear" you mean terrible jagged edges?
- cm3 10y agoNo, I mean zero smearing with/without anti-aliasing and pixel-perfect versions of the font that fit exactly into the raster. This is certainly a subjective matter, so it's moot to discuss why I fall into the crowd that finds pixel-perfect bitmap monospace fonts most pleasing. Thought it's telling if you see that even Mac users sometimes prefer misc-fixed: https://monkey.org/~marius/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-osx.html https://monkey.org/~marius/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-o...
- coldtea 10y ago>No, I mean zero smearing with/without anti-aliasing and pixel-perfect versions of the font that fit exactly into the raster. I feel like this is not an issue with hi-dpi displays anymore (plus sub-pixel antialiasing and other niceties).
- cm3 10y agoI can't verify that, but it's kinda unfortunate that to have clear text rendering we have to process a much larger number of pixels, though it may be the logical solution. I hope you're right.
- coldtea 10y agoI think it's inevitable as per the laws of physics/optics/etc -- as long as fonts have curves, to have them render clear we need to process a much larger number of pixels. I guess it's comes from information theory (Shannon/Nyquist etc).
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- carljv 10y agoI've been using Triplicate (http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html) for a few years and it's still my favorite by far. Not free, but really reasonably priced. (Note there's a special variant suitable for coding, you can see examples in Racket in the PDF specimen.)
- bitserf 10y agoHave you tried Iosevka (the Slab variant is serif)? Not a bitmap font, but pretty customisable. With hints of PragmataPro, it's my go-to font at the moment. Looks especially nice with OS X font hinting. https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka My command-line for building is: $ make STYLE_COMMON='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low' This gives the vertically centered asterisk and tilde, and puts the underscore below the baseline.