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Comment by saltcured | Hacker News Reader

I spent so many years reading the 6x13 "fixed" font in XTerm, starting with CRTs and moving over to LCDs.

I don't think anything is more readable to me. It hit the sweet spot of being condensed enough for easy reading but still with highly legible individual characters too.

I have always wished someone could have made a scalable version to bring it into the future of high resolution displays.

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I like this: https://webdraft.hu/fonts/classic-console/

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590910

That's interesting. If I'm not mistaken, it feels more like some old VGA text modes than it does like the old xterm fixed font though.

It's kind of pleasing shapes at 12 point for me, but too small on my screens... incrementally scaling up to 13,14,15 seems to degrade the quality.