2013-03-15

Good console fonts for OS X terminal applications

Today I was looking for a better console font for the Apple terminal application. Up until now I was using a variant of the Terminus font, but it did not have the line drawing characters. So several programs looked quite borked. But there is a nice page with a collection of the X11 terminal fonts in Apple's dfont format, which you know and like from all kinds of Linux distributions.
You have to tweak the spacings, for example for the 7x14 font you need to pick 0.98 and 0.93 for the horizontal and vertical spacing. Also make sure to use the fonts at their specified size. I.e. the 7x14 font at 14 points only.


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