I don't think my eyesight is quite that good, and I've never been impressed with the X11 fixed fonts (particularly at that size.) FWIW, I've used 8px as a benc

I don't think my eyesight is quite that good, and I've never been impressed with the X11 fixed fonts (particularly at that size.) FWIW, I've used 8px as a benchmark for character cell width for years. The original PC's I used were CGA machines with 640x200 displays. 80 column text implied 8px character cells. (Even then, MDA's 9x14 character cells were much higher quality... I think the reason 8px works better these days is due to anti-aliasing, etc.)