I really like /lib/font/bit/vga/vga.font (not sure if it's in official plan9, found it in 9front last time).
Costin On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Lee Fallat <ircsurfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey James, > > You are brave to bring up such a subject. > > Of the zillion fonts I have tried, only Droid Sans looks the best at smaller > text sizes. Of course there are bitmap fonts which are readable at 8x8 but I > figured you'd want something a little more scalable and useable across other > systems. Lucida Sans Unicode (unicode.7.font) looks really nice in acme too. > > Good luck (no really :), > > Lee > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:39 PM, James A. Robinson > <j...@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, James A. Robinson >> <j...@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Ideally the font would have glyphs that are easy to read for the >>> symbols used in a typical C or Go program when using a smaller font >>> (the long label problem I wrote about earlier is manageable with a >>> smaller font). It's a bonus if the font has good unicode coverage! >> >> >> One font I just came across that looks promising is sixpack: >> >> http://www.chastney.com/~philip/sixpack/outline.html >> >> Jim > >
