Re: fonts

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

nelson@media.mit.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:

> The problem here is that scalable outline fonts
> tend not to work very well; fonts designed explicitly for a particular
> screen size are usually better. And IMHO, the only two good ones in
> XFree86 are 6x13 and 10x20 (9x15bold is OK too). It'd sure be nice to
> have a good, say, 8x16 font. (The one in XFree86 is hideous and
> unreadable. Serifs have no place on screen fonts!)

You might want to check out the lucida fonts. lucidasanstypewriter is 
a really nice terminal font, very legible. 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24 point
sizes (regular and bold) come in the X distribution - the 14pt one is
probably about the 8x16 size you are looking for.

Regards,
                                        Owen