On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 8:36 AM Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm still trying to find a terminal font (not an X font) to suit my > deteriorating sight. Every terminal font I've found includes either a dot in > the centre of the /zero/ character or a diagonal bar across it. Either of > these makes a zero resemble an eight: 0, 8. I often need a magnifying glass to > see which it is. I suppose it's meant to distinguish a zero from a capital o: > 0, O, but this can be handled better in moderate to large font sizes such as I > use, by sloping the shoulders of the zero to resemble those used in the > publishing trade. > > I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much easier to > Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font like it. Or is there a > tool I can use to adjust the Terminus Font I use in my VTs? All the font > editors I've seen are for GUI use. > > There was a half-suitable utility years ago, whose name I've forgotten, which > might well be suitable if it could handle two-byte characters. > > Is there either a console font like what I've described, or a font editor that > would allow me to make my own? > > -- > Regards, > Peter. >
There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything inside the zero. No idea whether it addresses any other issues. Sorry about the eyesight issues. I'm starting to deal with a bit of that myself. Good luck, Mark
