Nice fonts for X terminals Adam Spiers http://adamspiers.org/ ========================================================================= Here's a collection of nice monospaced fonts for use with X terminals. I gathered them from various places around the Internet for my personal use, so I hope I'm not treading on anyone's toes by redistributing them. (If I am, please let me know ASAP.) I got some from here: http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html I can't remember where the rest came from. Screenshot ---------- http://adamspiers.org/computing/zsh/files/prompts/ contains a screenshot of the nexus font being used with the prompt theming system I wrote for zsh. See http://adamspiers.org/computing/zsh/ for more info. Installation ------------ To get them working under Linux, unpack them into a directory of your choosing, and do: xset fp+ /path/to/unpacked/dir xset fp rehash or include the directory in your xfs config (which lives in /etc/X11/fs/config these days) and restart xfs. N.B. The package already includes a fonts.dir file, so you shouldn't need to run `mkfontdir' in the directory before adding the path to the font search path, but if you're having problems, try running `mkfontdir' just in case. Then you can use them as follows: - with xterm: $ xterm -fn or in your xterm resources file (see the xrdb(1) man page), put XTerm*font: nexus - with Eterm: $ Eterm -F or edit the relevant theme.cfg file under ~/.Eterm/themes (see the Eterm(1) man page for more info). - with rxvt: $ rxvt -fn FONTNAME If you figure out how to use them with other terminal programs, please let me know and I'll add instructions to this file. There's a lot of choice if you look hard enough. Here's a table I made to try and figure out which fonts I wanted to use. I grouped them by size (i.e., lime and suxuseuro are all the same size, and so are artsie and sabvga), and the groups are in increasing order of size. Only a few of them look good with mutt's threading symbols, and some of them don't look good with BitchX. My favourite from each group is marked in the last column. NAME | mutt threads? | BitchX logo/ | preferred? | | prompts? | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- 5x7 | y | | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- lime | | mostly | nexus | y | y | y noxis | | | shine | | y | tixus | | | outcast | | y | edges | | y | suxus | y | | suxuseuro | y | | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- smallcaps | | y | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- artsie | y | | caps | | y | bright | | y | smooth | y | | smoothansi | y | y | y sabvga | | y | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- kates | | y | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- bigcaps | | y | fkp | | y | y vga | | y | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- 10x20 | y | | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- vga11x19 | | y | -------------+---------------+--------------+------------- 12x24 | y | | There are other differences with the lesser used ASCII characters, but I didn't really care about them.