Hi, > Helvetica is a proprietary font.
No? X11 is MIT-licensed, and so are the fonts included. Helvetica has both Adobe and DEC copyrights: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NetBSD/xsrc/trunk/external/mit/font-adobe-100dpi/dist/COPYING > and under the impression bitmap fonts are guaranteed to look bad by > design Bitmap fonts are considered superior by some, and are used by a lot of people. Go search for some tiling WM's screenshots, and you'll see :) Also, if you don't like old-school-looking X11 default fonts, maybe try Terminus, Dina or Tamsyn. -- caóc
