I struggled for a long time to find a font that looks good even when it's tiny and subpixel smoothing isn't very effective. I've pretty much settled on tamsyn:

I struggled for a long time to find a font that looks good even when it's tiny and subpixel smoothing isn't very effective. I've pretty much settled on tamsyn: http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ It's not "pretty" but I find it the most useful and visually appealing. The only downside is that not everything works properly with bitmap fonts.