**Large Heydon Collider** @heydon@front-end.social · Sep 03, 2024, 09:09

**Large Heydon Collider** @heydon@front-end.social · Sep 03, 2024, 09:09

Large Heydon Collider @heydon@front-end.social

Sep 03, 2024, 09:09

Large Heydon Collider @heydon@front-end.social

What are your favorite (free) monospace fonts?

**loose cannon** @unspeaker@mastodon.social · Sep 03, 2024, 09:15 *

**loose cannon** @unspeaker@mastodon.social · Sep 03, 2024, 09:15 *

Sep 03, 2024, 09:15 *

loose cannon @unspeaker@mastodon.social

@heydon

#iosevka! because it's narrow

but the most readable at tiniest size is the default #xterm font you get on a bare-bones distro. i think it's a bitmap font (#pcf?) but idk how it's called or how to get it in a modern terminal

(also consolas used to be quite nice, way back when)

**Peter Oliver** @mavit@bergamot.social · 2024-09-03T10:16:39Z

Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@unspeaker I think it doesn’t really have a name as such, but is referred to by its X11 font specifier “misc-fixed”. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

If your OS doesn’t supply this font in OpenType format, you could convert the bitmaps yourself; see, e.g., https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ucs-miscfixed-fonts/blob/d1e980c8998d6f62c794bb2d2bad6b09aa8bedec/f/ucs-miscfixed-fonts.spec#_39 for the recipe. Because of a spacing bug (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/-/issues/7), you want fonttosfnt version 1.2.4 (which hasn’t been released yet), so perhaps extract the font files from say https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/mavit/ucs-miscfixed-fonts/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/07764419-ucs-miscfixed-fonts/ucs-miscfixed-opentype-fonts-0.3-34.fc41.noarch.rpm instead.