[geeks] Good fonts (was: Swapping Sparc boxes...)

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Dec 20 03:25:19 CST 2003


Mon, 08 Dec 2003 @ 14:42 -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk said:

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
> > > I use -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-*-* for my
> > > xterm's =)
> 
> > Nice, but IMHO a bit to small. I prefer "8x16" or
> > "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-75-*-*-iso8859-1".
> 
> Too serif-y for me.  And big.
> 
> > For a smaller font "7x14" or
> > "-misc-*-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-75-*-*-iso8859-*".
> 
> Not bad.  I still think I prefer the lucidatypewriter, but that's a decent
> one....  Of course, we might be looking at different fonts =)

I have always wished there could be a decent font between 8x16 and 7x14,
or just a decent non-serif'd 8x16 would be fine.

I even like fonts like nexus and the other tiny fonts like them, as far
as how they look, but wish they were larger.


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