My eyesight sucks, so I use an XTerm with 80x40+0+0 geometry and large
characters.
I tried quite a few fonts before settling on my favorites:
Here are some screenshots of fonts I tested showing the
first 33 lines of the SSH(1) manpage.
The xterm command used looks like this:
/usr/local/bin/xterm -geometry 80x34+0+0 -j -b 10 -sb -si -sk -cr blue \
-sl 4000 -bd black -bg white -fa xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=20:bold
Options:
-b 10 size of the inner border
-bd black black border
-bg white white background
-cr blue blue cursor
-fa 'xft:..' font to use
-j jump scrolling instead of smooth
-sb give me a scroll-bar
-sl 4000 4000 lines of history
-si output to a window should not automatically reposition the
screen to the bottom of the scrolling region.
-sk pressing a key while using the scrollbar to review previous
lines of text should cause the window to be repositioned
automatically in the normal position at the bottom of the
scroll region.
xft:Menlo-Regular:pixelsize=20:bold (current favorite)
xft:SFMono-Regular:pixelsize=19:bold (second favorite)
xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=20:bold
xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=22
xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=23:bold
xft:Edlo:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:Edlo:pixelsize=23:bold
xft:Edlo:pixelsize=25:bold
xft:FiraCode-Bold:pixelsize=18
xft:FiraCode-Bold:pixelsize=20
xft:FiraCode-Bold:pixelsize=20:bold
xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=12:bold
xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=18:bold
xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=20
xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=25:bold
xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:FiraMono-Regular:pixelsize=18:bold
xft:FiraMono-Regular:pixelsize=20:bold
xft:FiraMono-Regular:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=20:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=21
xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono-ExtraBold:pixelsize=21
xft:JetBrainsMono-ExtraBold:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono-ExtraBold:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:JetBrainsMono:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:LiberationMono-Bold:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:Meslo LG M:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:Meslo LG M:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:Meslo LG S:pixelsize=20:bold
xft:Meslo LG S:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:Meslo LG S:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:SC-pro-Black:bold
xft:SC-pro-Black:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:SC-pro-Black:pixelsize=42:bold
xft:SC-pro-Bold:bold
xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=21:bold
xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=23:bold
xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=24:bold
xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=25:bold
xft:iosevka-bold:pixelsize=22
xft:iosevka-bold:pixelsize=23
xft:iosevka-heavy:pixelsize=22
xft:iosevka-heavy:pixelsize=23
xft:iosevka-heavy:pixelsize=23:bold
xft:iosevka-medium:pixelsize=23:bold
xft:iosevka-medium:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:iosevka-regular:pixelsize=22:bold
xft:iosevka-regular:pixelsize=23:bold
xft:iosevka:pixelsize=22:bold
| XTerm monospace font examples | $Date: 2024-09-09 05:37:39-04 $ |