{"id":35,"date":"2013-03-15T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:45:00","slug":"good-console-fonts-for-os-x-terminal-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Good console fonts for OS X terminal applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was looking for a better console font for the Apple terminal application. Up until now I was using a variant of the Terminus font, but it did not have the line drawing characters. So several programs looked quite borked. But there is a nice page with a <a href=\"http:\/\/monkey.org\/~marius\/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-osx.html\">collection of the X11 terminal fonts<\/a> in Apple&#8217;s dfont format, which you know and like from all kinds of Linux distributions.<br \/>You have to tweak the spacings, for example for the 7&#215;14 font you need to pick 0.98 and 0.93 for the horizontal and vertical spacing. Also make sure to use the fonts at their specified size. I.e. the 7&#215;14 font at 14 points only.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CQKx8gS-_lk\/UUNsQs_IyHI\/AAAAAAAADAc\/51kt47uL43A\/s1600\/Bildschirmfoto+2013-03-15+um+19.39.53.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CQKx8gS-_lk\/UUNsQs_IyHI\/AAAAAAAADAc\/51kt47uL43A\/s640\/Bildschirmfoto+2013-03-15+um+19.39.53.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was looking for a better console font for the Apple terminal application. Up until now I was using a variant of the Terminus font, but it did not have the line drawing characters. So several programs looked quite borked. But there is a nice page with a collection of the X11 terminal fonts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good console fonts for OS X terminal applications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}