small fonts

I don’t use a lot of X applications. The one that I use most often is xterm.

I like small fonts, and I find that I have no problem reading a small font on an LCD monitor. Recently someone mentioned the Terminus font. I tried it and it quickly became my favored xterm font… it’s so tiny and clean! Here are the important bits of my .Xdefaults file…

    XTerm*renderFont:        false
    XTerm*font:              -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

I also grabbed a few tiny fonts from Proggy Fonts and my new wmii font is ProggyTiny. Here is the bit from my .wmii-3/wmiirc-config.rb file…

    font        '-windows-proggytiny-medium-r-normal--10-80-96-96-c-60-iso8859-1'

The above font site also taught me how to import fonts into X font server w/o a restart and how to keep fonts in my home directory. Check out this short HOWTO.

It all looks something like this…

There is another tiny font available here if you need more. I find this font only usable for the xterm tiny font.