{"id":119,"date":"2007-12-12T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/12\/search-for-a-crisp-monospace-true-type-font\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:36:49","slug":"search-for-a-crisp-monospace-true-type-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/12\/search-for-a-crisp-monospace-true-type-font\/","title":{"rendered":"search for a crisp monospace true-type font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using xterms forever.  Whenever I try to switch to using a terminal with a true-type font, my eyes hurt after a few hours.  I&#8217;ve tried changing the various font-rendering options, and gone through lots of monospaced fonts &#8212; nothing gives the same clarity as the fixed raster fonts.  I suspect this is basically the same problem as <a href=\"http:\/\/gould.cx\/ted\/blog\/Icon_Scaling\">Icon Scaling<\/a>.  Things don&#8217;t work correctly when trying to line up a vector image against hard pixel edges.  I wish I could find a workable fix for this.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using xterms forever. Whenever I try to switch to using a terminal with a true-type font, my eyes hurt after a few hours. I&#8217;ve tried changing the various font-rendering options, and gone through lots of monospaced fonts &#8212; nothing gives the same clarity as the fixed raster fonts. I suspect this is basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}