XTerm monospace font examples


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)

f1.png

xft:SFMono-Regular:pixelsize=19:bold (second favorite)

f2.png

xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=21:bold

p01.png

xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=20:bold

p02.png

xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=21:bold

p03.png

xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=22

p04.png

xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=22:bold

p05.png

xft:Cascadia:pixelsize=23:bold

p06.png

xft:Edlo:pixelsize=21:bold

p07.png

xft:Edlo:pixelsize=23:bold

p08.png

xft:Edlo:pixelsize=25:bold

p09.png

xft:FiraCode-Bold:pixelsize=18

p10.png

xft:FiraCode-Bold:pixelsize=20

p11.png

xft:FiraCode-Bold:pixelsize=20:bold

p12.png

xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=12:bold

p13.png

xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=18:bold

p14.png

xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=20

p15.png

xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=25:bold

p16.png

xft:FiraCode-Regular:pixelsize=21:bold

p17.png

xft:FiraMono-Regular:pixelsize=18:bold

p18.png

xft:FiraMono-Regular:pixelsize=20:bold

p19.png

xft:FiraMono-Regular:pixelsize=22:bold

p20.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=20:bold

p22.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=21

p23.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=21:bold

p24.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-Bold:pixelsize=22:bold

p25.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-ExtraBold:pixelsize=21

p26.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-ExtraBold:pixelsize=21:bold

p27.png

xft:JetBrainsMono-ExtraBold:pixelsize=22:bold

p28.png

xft:JetBrainsMono:pixelsize=21:bold

p29.png

xft:JetBrainsMono:pixelsize=22:bold

p30.png

xft:LiberationMono-Bold:pixelsize=21:bold

p31.png

xft:Meslo LG M:pixelsize=21:bold

p33.png

xft:Meslo LG M:pixelsize=22:bold

p34.png

xft:Meslo LG S:pixelsize=20:bold

p35.png

xft:Meslo LG S:pixelsize=21:bold

p36.png

xft:Meslo LG S:pixelsize=22:bold

p37.png

xft:SC-pro-Black:bold

p38.png

xft:SC-pro-Black:pixelsize=22:bold

p39.png

xft:SC-pro-Black:pixelsize=42:bold

p40.png

xft:SC-pro-Bold:bold

p41.png

xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=21:bold

p42.png

xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=22:bold

p43.png

xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=23:bold

p44.png

xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=24:bold

p45.png

xft:UbuntuMono-B:pixelsize=25:bold

p46.png

xft:iosevka-bold:pixelsize=22

p47.png

xft:iosevka-bold:pixelsize=23

p48.png

xft:iosevka-heavy:pixelsize=22

p49.png

xft:iosevka-heavy:pixelsize=23

p50.png

xft:iosevka-heavy:pixelsize=23:bold

p51.png

xft:iosevka-medium:pixelsize=23:bold

p52.png

xft:iosevka-medium:pixelsize=22:bold

p53.png

xft:iosevka-regular:pixelsize=22:bold

p54.png

xft:iosevka-regular:pixelsize=23:bold

p55.png

xft:iosevka:pixelsize=22:bold

p56.png
XTerm monospace font examples $Date: 2024-09-09 05:37:39-04 $