Comments on: Konsole Fonts

By: Jean Azzopardi

Jean Azzopardi — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:20:22 +0000

Glad to see I’m not the only one using Consolas! I got so used to it in VS, that I use it in gvim and Konsole

By: Shamus

Shamus — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:11:11 +0000

I remember somewhere in the KDE 3.5.x cycle that Luxi Mono became the default font for Konsole. Now whether this was a Gentoo thing or a KDE thing, I don’t know but it really looked great and I used it all the time. But after a while (somewhere around 3.5.6 or so), it disappeared from Konsole and eventually wouldn’t even load–the only way I could get it back was by editing a configuration file by hand and forcing it to use Luxi Mono (I don’t know if it’s because Konsole/KDE doesn’t recognize Type 1 monospace fonts, but there you have it). It would be nice to get it back into circulation as I still prefer to use it for Konsole. At least I can still use it in Kate.

http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/luxi-mono.png

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:54:31 +0000

Some fonts don’t kern well, monospace is my best font (allows bold, looks nice), but what ever reads the best.

http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/desktop-phht/

By: nixternal

nixternal — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:46:05 +0000

@Dion – THANK YOU! I couldn’t remember the name of that font. I used it a long time ago and it was my favorite term font in the late 90s and early 00s. Though I noticed you suffer the same RGB issue I did, thanks to Nuno up there showing me the way

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:12:07 +0000

http://upload.failnation.com/2009-05-16-091608_1280×800_scrot.png
That’s my font I used to use MonteCarlo but what you see there is ProFont. Great font IMO and you get a lot on screen (on xterm).

By: nuno pinheiro

nuno pinheiro — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:04:53 +0000

nixternal plese dont use the subpixel thing specialy in a console use full hinting and no subpixel rgb hinting. here you have a screnshot of liberations sans http://www.imagebin.ca/img/92LMjJ.png