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One of the reasons I use xterm is it's beautiful default bitmap fonts, every character distinct and easy to understand, no matter if it's 1 i l | or I, no matte
by dusted 3y ago
One of the reasons I use xterm is it's beautiful default bitmap fonts, every character distinct and easy to understand, no matter if it's 1 i l | or I, no matter if it's 0 O o or Ø.
The extra flexibility of is not worth the compromise of clarity to me.
I use the different sizes too:
"unreadable" when I need to copy-paste huge amounts of text
"default" for most stuff
and "huge" when I need a bit more focus.
This is also the reason I prefer 1920x1200 px display rather than higher resolutions at the same size. Higher DPIs makes the characters too small for my old eyes, and switching to a vector font only to try and reproduce the shapes I already know seem idiotic.
- bitwize 3y agoThere's a program called bdfscale that lets you blow up X fonts: https://github.com/philj56/bdfscale/ https://github.com/philj56/bdfscale/