What terminal font do you use?

[pidsley]

Looking at some ugly terminal scrots made me curious -- what font(s) do you use in a terminal?

I used droid sans mono for a long time, then terminus, and then I discovered how much more readable tamsyn was at smaller sizes, so I use that everywhere. Sometimes termsyn or gohufont, but I always come back to tamsyn. Now I can't stand how xft fonts look, unless I have no choice (wmx doesn't do bitmap fonts well on its windecs).

What do you use?

[dkeg]

Good thread idea. All those are good. Right now I'm using terminus.

I think it would be cool to add the actual font syntax too.

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-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-1

with

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*letterSpace:1
*lineSpace:1

[pidsley]

I think it would be cool to add the actual font syntax too.

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*font:             -*-tamsyn-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*boldFont:         -*-tamsyn-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

letter space and line space not needed for this one.

[bones]

This:

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*font:                            xft:Dejavu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10.5
*boldFont:                        xft:Dejavu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10.5

Or terminus.

[wuxmedia]

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!XFT fonts and Fix
*.font: xft: Source Code Pro :size=9

OR

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!Bitmap Fonts
!*.font: -artwiz-lime-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

with this:

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*.allowBoldFonts: false

Dislike emboldened fonts.
tried ubuntumono, can't remember why I switched.
Source looks great for term output. doesn't seem to have all it's 'box' chars though 8(

Interesting point, I always found as pidsley does, that smaller fonts look a lot neater at a small size - lime is tiny, but looks so neat and has the chars for drawing 'boxes'.
Weird thing - I found with bitmaps, was they redrew on the screen *really* slowly, as in having to wait for a long file to be paged in less, this can't be right, so I changed to xft and they are a decent speed.
probably some font of gfx card thing. you'd think that bitmaps would be quick.

[GekkoP]

Mainly Anonymous Pro. I found it very readable. I also like tamsyn and termsyn.

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static char font[] = "Anonymous Pro:pixelsize=12:antialias=false:autohint=false";

[dkeg]

^^ interesting wux, b/c I have read that urxvt is slowed by xft fonts.

[wuxmedia]

^ yeah I probably set something up wrong, but you'd think that bitmaps would be just chucked on the screen.
It was a real difference, scrolling through huge log files on servers would be a real pain, I thought it might be the screen connection, but it was slow locally too.

[kexolino]

Terminus for a long time, but now Droid Sans Mono. Terminus is awesome, it was just too small, and I didn't like its look at bigger sizes.
Also used some of the Artwiz fonts for a while, but those are seriously small, even compared to Terminus.
Gonna give Tamsyn a go.

[dkeg]

kex give a try to my terminus config above. it's a good size, but still looks good and clear. I usually like small fonts, but this has been a nice happy medium

[ivanovnegro]

^^ interesting wux, b/c I have read that urxvt is slowed by xft fonts.

It depends on the fonts and terminal. But usually in my experience xft fonts are slower to render. Try it with mpv/mplayer or doing a big d-u in terminal (screen scrolling) and look at the CPU usage of X. You will see how it increases when you do not use quiet in the config of mplayer. Though when you disable antialiasing it will be back to normal but then xft fonts look ugly of course.

That said I love Terminus and of course Droid Sans Mono among some others that I mentioned in one of my fonts how-to's.

[slartie]

I tend to stick with Terminus, but have recently been playing around with Tamsyn and Gohu. It really depends on which monitor I'm on, or rather its resolution. Terminus looks ... well, not good in larger sizes.

[wuxmedia]

I had a quick test today, not actually that much difference when the computer does the scrolling, bit of tearing and flickering with the bitmaps.

http://youtu.be/_FGqGhBdvwI
slightly paranoid about a tcpdump - will be deleting tomorow.

Manually hitting cursor up and down to scroll is laggy, not so with the xft.

[GekkoP]

^ Inconsolata was my choice before finding Anonymous Pro.

[kiiroitori]

I use Envy Code R at size 9. I am quite satisfied with it, I think it's a great font, in my very humble opinion.

[wuxmedia]

Hmm, that's quite nice, I was looking through fontsquirrel wondering if any of these were any good.
but does it have all the "boxes" in the font? (although I think sometimes if it doesn't have it, it seems they get replaced by some defaults)

[kiiroitori]

Wux, I never had a problem with some characters not showing properly with Envy Code but I only use the font in the terminal...is that what you meant by all the "boxes"?

edit: you can check the glyphs on font squirrels by clicking on the glyphs tab!

[wuxmedia]

Ahh, very nice, thanks NZstory (that is the same bird, innit?)
cool, yes that's what I meant by "boxes", essential for pretty moc displays and such 8)

[kiiroitori]

You're welcome! ...and no mate it isn't the NZstory bird, rather the "rilakkuma" bird. See, I am also on iphone covers!

[wuxmedia]

^ Cute and yellow, nonetheless 8)