On 2025-11-02, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a (readable) monospaced X font in the base distrubution > that has decent Unicode coverage? I sure can't find one. I need > something that will let xterm deal with utf8.
in base, i think just dejavu sans mono, which i don't like. more options in packages. i've still not found anything in .ttf or .otf that i consider acceptable for terminal use for me though, no matter what i've tried they're all either blurry or a horrible mess. and unicode coverage isn't brilliant in the .otb ones that i like. (i'm currently using Tamzen8x16r in rxvt-unicode, every now and again i try and get ttf/otf to look ok, and try to get working colour emoji in the terminal, but never managed it yet... if anyone has ideas about that i'd be interested to hear them) > Note that I need something that will work with my increasingly > impaired eyesight. E.g. large x-height and lightly serif-ed really > helps. I am currently using > > -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-sans-*-110-*-*-m-*-*-* > > which is very readable, but has no Unicode coverage. not sure if something like -*-ttyp0-medium-r-*--18-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1 (ttyp0 packages, check pkg_info for details of the various flavours) might be any good..
