Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:45:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-proportional fonts for X Message-ID: <20031117044529.GB35692@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200311170501.32484@harrymail> References: <200311170501.32484@harrymail>
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In the last episode (Nov 17), Harald Schmalzbauer said: > perhaps someone achieved something useful from the search for a good > mail font. I don't like misc-fixed for mails (I use kmail) so I took > courier-new 9pt. But with that font the 1 and l are looking very > similar with less that 10pt. And 10pt is too big for me. So I > switched to Lucida typewriter. Readability at 9pt is quiet good but > I'd like to know your favourites. My preferred TTF fixed-width font is LetterGothic Line (letgothl.ttf), but it only looks good in Windows. Under X there is too much horizontal space between the letters for some reason. 2nd choice is Vera Bitstream Mono, which has very distinct 1/l 0/O pairs, but has thinner vertical stems, so it gets washed-out at small sizes. If you prefer bitmap fonts, Terminus (x11-fonts/terminus-font) is pretty good. I use the bold flavor as my xterm font. The version in ports has almost identical o and a, though. I need to send in a PR to have the port updated to the current one. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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