+ comments here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646107
1) the last sentence of the article implies that the author of the article abhor them as much as programming ligatures. I don't understand why but preference in taste, color, esthetic are not objective, nor absolute, so I am not the one to judge him.
Being distributed with Debian and downstreams, 11 years old, with 1.5K stars and 60+ forks is, by far, my most popular open source thing. My biggest shame is that it's not software, but a font that mimics the look of IBM's 3278-2 terminals.
And, of course, it's the font I use for terminals on all my machines.
Luckily, everyone can get one at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font.
Note: shameless plug ;-)
* the modern, open source revival → https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
Are you talking about AFP fonts[1]? In that case Sonoran Sans Serif[2]? Then you should probably be happy with Arial[3]. Fun story[4].
Or are you talking about a 3270 font? Then you should have a look at 3270font[5]
[1] https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...
[2] https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=c...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial
[4] http://idsgn.org/posts/sonoran-the-hidden-truths/
[5] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
...and then I saw the username i was responding to. I'll post anyway if you do not want to toot your own horn. Nice work!
Just a minor nitpick - the green screens we see today are also often descendants of the 3270 family as well as the 5250's that started life with the System/34 and found their way into the AS/400 and iSeries.
I had to nitpick because the 3270 is where this beautiful (shameless plug) font originated: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I use for terminal the classic IBM mainframe 3270 font [1], but I can replace that in a heartbeat with Unscii, which is more uniform and less OCR-y.
It's now my most popular GitHub project and is included in the Debian repos:
I reproduced the 3270's here: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
No other font of theirs compares to their flagship mainframe terminal product https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
(the original, pixel-by-pixel, is the one used in x3270, from which this was based)
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
Won't turn your keyboard into a beam-spring one, but it still feels cool.
Also, not pixel-perfect and with many symbols absent from the original, is https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font.
Sadly, it never made it to the PCs, being confined to mainframe terminals.
I made https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font for a reason.
I'll add these (and the IBM-related symbols @kens mentioned, which are specially appropriate) to https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font for the next release (this weekend, I think - still lots of Cyrillic cleanup to do in the develop branch).
In case you didn't already know that this exists.
Where I can't use Tamsyn I use https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I like fonts that are easily readable when small so I can get more screen realestate, and bitmaps are the best for that, but 3270 is pretty good as well.
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
When I can't use it, Terminus is a favorite. A long time ago I added a central dot to Luxi Mono's 0 and used it as my terminal font for a long time.