Terminus font

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The Terminus font (http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/terminus-font-4.14.tar.gz), created by Dimitar Zhekov, is the best monospaced bitmap font ever. I never switched to other fonts since I discovered it. It works extremely well in text terminals and code editors. However, many Java applications are not able to make use of pcf or bdf fonts. To ameliorate this situation, I compiled the bitmap bdfs into a ttf file as embedded bitmaps. Although it looks horrible at sizes other than 14, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 32, Java would use embedded bitmaps whenever available anyways, so that is not a problem as long as I only use them at those sizes. To use them just copy them into the lib/fonts/ directory in your JRE.

I haven't tried it on Windows, but I believe it would work too.

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I tried it on windows (XP) but it didn't really work, the hinting seems wrong so the characters appear a little bit off. Also windows really wants to antialias them.
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I finally tried it on Windows XP too with Visual Studio. The normal-style font worked pretty well. Windows will try to anti-alias the bold font if you have it turned on. Also, please make sure that you are using it at the right sizes, namely, 14, 16, 20, 24, 18, or 32 (pixels, not points). --EricCheng

The fonts are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0.

--EricCheng

I created another TrueType version which only contains bitmap data because Eric's version just didn't do the trick for me on OS X (looked really ugly). Available at:

-- Simon 'corecode' Schubert (mailto:corecode@fs.ei.tum.de)

On OS X the installer warns that opentype data is missing. It's possible to ignore the warning and the font does work.

--- As mentioned above, the smallest usable size is 14. But I think Terminus on X11 had an even smaller bitmap, around 9pt or 10pt. Could you possibly make a new .ttf including that very small size? 14pt is just way too big for my irssi terminal windows =] Many thanks! -j.auricchio (at gmail)


Yes, there is a 9pt bitmap version.

terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1 for example.

You can find a download for the windows bitmap versions (each one is a seperate font) on this page: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ (just search for Terminus, I didn't want to provide a direct link to the download, kind of rude ;) - D.Mauldin