From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 20:45:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B11116A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:45:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B2843F85 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:45:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id hAH4jUJs046567; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:45:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:45:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Harald Schmalzbauer Message-ID: <20031117044529.GB35692@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200311170501.32484@harrymail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311170501.32484@harrymail> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-proportional fonts for X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:45:34 -0000 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