Nice fonts for X terminals
Adam Spiers <x-fonts@adamspiers.org>
http://adamspiers.org/
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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
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  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
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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 <font name>

    or in your xterm resources file (see the xrdb(1) man page), put

      XTerm*font: nexus

  - with Eterm:

      $ Eterm -F <font name>

    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.
