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So what's your favorite, HN?

Personally I'm a big fan of

- the Apple ][ font,

- what I call the "Nintendo Font" that was in many 8-bit NES games and arcade games. It's the font in Pac-man. I believe some Atari games from the 70's used it,

- The VT220 font - I use the GlassTTY font in PuTTY, I really like it.

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- the Apple ][ font, I sometimes use it in Terminal as it is compact and retro.

https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/apple2.shtml

re the apple 2 font, yes i instantly recognized the space invaders page in the book to be exactly, or nearly so, the upper case 40-column character set used on the apple 2.

ha, i used the condensed (ie. 80-column) version of this font in my terminal too, and for coding as well. see the xcode theme i made... https://smallduck.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/throwback-xcode-t...

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