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I could really use a serif monospace font for coding and terminals. Haven't found a good one yet.

EDIT: Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance.

Have you tried Iosevka (the Slab variant is serif)?

Not a bitmap font, but pretty customisable. With hints of PragmataPro, it's my go-to font at the moment. Looks especially nice with OS X font hinting.

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

My command-line for building is:

$ make STYLE_COMMON='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low'

This gives the vertically centered asterisk and tilde, and puts the underscore below the baseline.

Operator[0]

[0]: http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator

Which costs $199.

That's sans-serif.

There's a monospace font Operator Mono on the same page.

Thanks, but unfortunately that's not what I would call consistently serif, more like some letters looking hand-written.

I've been using Triplicate (http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html) for a few years and it's still my favorite by far. Not free, but really reasonably priced. (Note there's a special variant suitable for coding, you can see examples in Racket in the PDF specimen.)

Take a look at The Oldschool PC Font Resource

http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

There a some quite good monospace font with serifs. I use them a lot at my terminals, reminds me of the good old days ...

Thanks, IBM EGA9 and CompaqThin look nice.

For my terminals, I use MingLiU, on OS X. It's primarily an Asian scripts font, and the roman characters are monospaced.

There's little difference between O and 0 or l and 1, though, so I don't use it for coding, but it's good enough for my use of the terminal.

http://i.imgur.com/mAq8b5b.png

Luxi Mono isn't bad either, but the capital o and the zero are almost pixel for pixel identical, which is a deal breaker for me. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Luxi-Mono

>Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance.

Where by "crystal clear" you mean terrible jagged edges?

No, I mean zero smearing with/without anti-aliasing and pixel-perfect versions of the font that fit exactly into the raster. This is certainly a subjective matter, so it's moot to discuss why I fall into the crowd that finds pixel-perfect bitmap monospace fonts most pleasing. Thought it's telling if you see that even Mac users sometimes prefer misc-fixed: https://monkey.org/~marius/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-o...

>No, I mean zero smearing with/without anti-aliasing and pixel-perfect versions of the font that fit exactly into the raster.

I feel like this is not an issue with hi-dpi displays anymore (plus sub-pixel antialiasing and other niceties).

I can't verify that, but it's kinda unfortunate that to have clear text rendering we have to process a much larger number of pixels, though it may be the logical solution. I hope you're right.

I think it's inevitable as per the laws of physics/optics/etc -- as long as fonts have curves, to have them render clear we need to process a much larger number of pixels.

I guess it's comes from information theory (Shannon/Nyquist etc).

Have you tried Luxi Mono or Linux Libertine Mono?

Will try again, but it didn't look as clean and sharp as Terminus, Fixed or even DejaVu Sans Mono.

PT Mono?

I had the same issue as with any other TTF font that's not DejaVu, meaning foggy rendering.

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