I used a font similar to this one when watching log files on an xterm back in the '90s and screen space was valuable. Its not "I want to read the lines as they

I used a font similar to this one when watching log files on an xterm back in the '90s and screen space was valuable. Its not "I want to read the lines as they go past" but rather "I want to get a feel for the rate of the lines as they go past and see the 'shape' of the lines". For an access log, regular use looks very different than someone trying to probe the site and that can be determined by the shape of the line - not the text itself. For that, if you wanted to see what was going on, a quick copy and paste of the text into a regular editor will show you the characters at a reasonable size.