At 8pt you can’t beat a bitmap font which was designed at that size, but at 12pt or above, when combined with subpixel anti-aliasing on an LCD screen, TTF fonts look much better, and of course there are many more to choose from. I was a devotee of the standard 6×13 ‘fixed’ X bitmap font, until an eye disease forced me to switch to something bigger, and I found I didn’t get on with any of the standard X bitmap fonts at larger sizes. The main reason for wanting to do this is because TTFs generally look better at medium and large sizes. Some X terminal programs now permit using Xft (TrueType) fonts instead of the traditional X bitmap fonts (see my comparison of X terms for more details of which ones). This article examines some of the monospaced TrueType fonts suitable for use in an xterm window, and why you might want to use them.
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