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I use Tamsyn (6x12 on lower res screens, 7x14 on 4k monitors), http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ but it's getting more and more difficult to use bitmap fonts these days. Firefox recently dropped support for them, gtk support is hit and miss.

Where I can't use Tamsyn I use https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

I like fonts that are easily readable when small so I can get more screen realestate, and bitmaps are the best for that, but 3270 is pretty good as well.

Same here. All those fonts looked same until I found Tamsyn. If anyone reading here want to try it, you have to use it at the exact size it is made for, or else it will look ugly. So if you are using Tamsyn6x12 font, you can only use it at 12px font size..or it will look ugly.

looks like this guy figured out how to turn raster fonts into TTF/OTF

http://www.electronicdissonance.com/2010/01/raster-fonts-in-...

I've spent so much time picking a font for my sumlimetext. The one I use and love is Pragmata Pro: http://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

Take a look here:

http://programmingfonts.org/

Lately I'm in love with Office Code Pro (Dotted Zero version):

https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro

Your first link seems to not work.

PR#3 from <http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/apple2.shtml>, with green text on a black background for maximum nostalgia. Very narrow & effective on my laptop screen. Considering switching to Input Condensed or Compressed though.

All my computers are Macs. I use Inconsolata (version that supports Hellenic letters by Cosmix) patched with devicons. My editor of choice is VIM on iTerm 13 pt, see sshot[1].

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3s165lgha1ci01/vim-sshot.png?dl=0

Fira Code in my IDE, Menlo in my debug log (so it's the same as Chrome's devtools console), something else in an SSH session, and whatever the default is in Google Docs when I'm writing documentation.

Fantasque Sans Mono by Jany Belluz.

https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

Inconsolata http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Inconsolata is my choice too. It's legible at small sizes and has clear distinctions between all the easy-to-confuse characters like 0 vs O, l vs I vs 1, etc.

And unlike many programmer-friendly fixed width fonts, it's also almost as comfortable to read as a good variable-width screen font when reading/writing/editing large blocks of text such as comments, personal notes, READMEs, etc.

Input Mono Compressed from http://input.fontbureau.com/ . Before, I used Envy Code R

Source Code Pro

Input Mono with settings:

    --asterisk=height
    --i=serifs_round
    --l=serifs_round
    --zero=slash
    --lineHeight=1.4

Monaco, with Infinality on Linux so it thinner.

Fira Code

Likewise

Lucida Console

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