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I use Terminus TTF for my terminal and text editor. I fully agree with their description of it as a workhorse font. The Gohu font they mention also seem interes

I use Terminus TTF for my terminal and text editor. I fully agree with their description of it as a workhorse font. The Gohu font they mention also seem interesting. In general bitmap fonts avoid the blurryness of modern font rendering made for high DPI monitors, which fails spectacularly on low DPI monitors (which is what I still have). And blurry text give me literal headaches. And this is why I gave up on anything but bitmap fonts in recent years.

noisem4ker 6mo ago
Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare. I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but blurry. I think Noto Mono used to have hints but dropped them. It was hours spent trying out different fonts only to ultimately go back to msttcore-fonts for me.
cmdrk 6mo ago
100% the same problem here. I have to show people extremely zoomed-in screenshots of how $VENDOR default monospaced fonts get rendered compared to Terminus at the correct size in order for them to understand my pain. The hinting is just blurry bleh. These days, because I am also old, I want a comparatively large pixel-perfect font. I've yet to find a good one but haven't looked much beyond Terminus honestly. Maybe I can render it an acceptable integer multiple without it being too large?
- UweW 6mo ago
  For Linux and *BSD, UW ttyp0 (v2.1) goes up to 18x40px. Greybeard is essentially UW ttyp0 ported to Windows, but since it's based on UW ttyp0 v1.3, the largest bitmap size is only 11x22px.
amlib 6mo ago
I've been using it for a long time and I can't use a new computer or a work computer without it for long before I feel like my eyes are going bad. I specially like the bold version, seems to do well with my astigmatism, specially in reverse video/"dark mode". I never knew there was a TTF variant, might be a good fit on software that stubbornly blurs it when rendering in hi-dpi.
TacticalCoder 6mo ago
Same. Pixel-perfect Terminus for the win in my terminals and in my beloved Emacs.
ASalazarMX 6mo ago
Subpixel antialiasing works really well on low DPI monitors, though. When Microsoft implemented it, it felt like magic compared to bitmapped or regular font aliasing.
- VorpalWay 6mo ago
  I disagree on this, the colour bleeding is visible and causes me actual headaches. I know not everyone is affected by that, but if you google this, a small but significant number of people can't use cleartype because of that.
  - ASalazarMX 6mo ago
    I can see (ha ha) how annoying that could be. Like trying to force-focus something that isn't focusable at all.

noisem4ker 6mo ago

Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare. I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but blurry. I think Noto Mono used to have hints but dropped them. It was hours spent trying out different fonts only to ultimately go back to msttcore-fonts for me.

cmdrk 6mo ago

100% the same problem here. I have to show people extremely zoomed-in screenshots of how $VENDOR default monospaced fonts get rendered compared to Terminus at the correct size in order for them to understand my pain. The hinting is just blurry bleh. These days, because I am also old, I want a comparatively large pixel-perfect font. I've yet to find a good one but haven't looked much beyond Terminus honestly. Maybe I can render it an acceptable integer multiple without it being too large?

UweW 6mo ago
For Linux and *BSD, UW ttyp0 (v2.1) goes up to 18x40px. Greybeard is essentially UW ttyp0 ported to Windows, but since it's based on UW ttyp0 v1.3, the largest bitmap size is only 11x22px.

amlib 6mo ago

I've been using it for a long time and I can't use a new computer or a work computer without it for long before I feel like my eyes are going bad. I specially like the bold version, seems to do well with my astigmatism, specially in reverse video/"dark mode". I never knew there was a TTF variant, might be a good fit on software that stubbornly blurs it when rendering in hi-dpi.

TacticalCoder 6mo ago

Same. Pixel-perfect Terminus for the win in my terminals and in my beloved Emacs.

ASalazarMX 6mo ago

Subpixel antialiasing works really well on low DPI monitors, though. When Microsoft implemented it, it felt like magic compared to bitmapped or regular font aliasing.

VorpalWay 6mo ago
I disagree on this, the colour bleeding is visible and causes me actual headaches. I know not everyone is affected by that, but if you google this, a small but significant number of people can't use cleartype because of that.
- ASalazarMX 6mo ago
  I can see (ha ha) how annoying that could be. Like trying to force-focus something that isn't focusable at all.