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I'm coding on a 1080p screen and I still very much prefer pixel-perfect fonts - Terminus (https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ https://files.ax86.net/terminus-t

I'm coding on a 1080p screen and I still very much prefer pixel-perfect fonts - Terminus (https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/) has been my font of choice, with proggy clean being a close second (use it for terminal panels and such). I see the site has a filter toggle to show those but with modern browser forcing anti-aliasing on all text, that's pretty uselesas. On a related note, I noticed that there are a few fonts which seems to ignore system-wide or browser-wide antialiasing settings - one example would be the "MS Gothic" font, visible on this site: https://fountainofdreams.net/ https://fountainofdreams.net/ where all text is crisp as hell. Why is this?

layer8 4y ago
Similarly for me, I find fonts without hinting to be useless at small sizes. Still haven’t found a better font than Lucida Console for coding.
- onetom 4y ago
  Envy Code R is pretty will hinted between the 10-16px range. i used it without antialiasing any it's great on lower resolutions. u can still pack a lot of code onto a (sub)FullHD screen readably.
  - layer8 4y ago
    Thanks, I’ll have to give it a try, although one thing I don’t like is the concave-towards-the-tip style of curly braces that it uses. By that, I mean that I prefer each half (upper and lower) of the brace to only go in one direction horizontally, and not go back in the other horizontal direction before it reaches the tip where both halves meet. Are there good names for these two different styles?
mpyne 4y ago
That website appears to specifically try to disable antialiasing with CSS properties (though for some reason both Chrome and Firefox still antialias the font text anyways). Also, bitmap fonts won't be antialiased anyways, and it's possible to make vector fonts that define their shapes in 'pixelated' shapes as well, though that's not something you commonly see.
flobosg 4y ago
There are TrueType fonts like MS Gothic that have embedded bitmap glyphs at small sizes.

layer8 4y ago

Similarly for me, I find fonts without hinting to be useless at small sizes. Still haven’t found a better font than Lucida Console for coding.

onetom 4y ago
Envy Code R is pretty will hinted between the 10-16px range. i used it without antialiasing any it's great on lower resolutions. u can still pack a lot of code onto a (sub)FullHD screen readably.
- layer8 4y ago
  Thanks, I’ll have to give it a try, although one thing I don’t like is the concave-towards-the-tip style of curly braces that it uses. By that, I mean that I prefer each half (upper and lower) of the brace to only go in one direction horizontally, and not go back in the other horizontal direction before it reaches the tip where both halves meet. Are there good names for these two different styles?

mpyne 4y ago

That website appears to specifically try to disable antialiasing with CSS properties (though for some reason both Chrome and Firefox still antialias the font text anyways). Also, bitmap fonts won't be antialiased anyways, and it's possible to make vector fonts that define their shapes in 'pixelated' shapes as well, though that's not something you commonly see.

flobosg 4y ago

There are TrueType fonts like MS Gothic that have embedded bitmap glyphs at small sizes.