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Call me old-fashioned, but I really like the Fixed-Misc font that xterm uses by default. I like it enough that I want to use it in other contexts, like Terminal.app or JEdit. After a bit of tinkering in FontForge I managed to convert it to an OS X .dfont file. It’s still bitmapped, and it only looks good at 7×13 pixels per glyph, but that’s just fine for my needs. I’ve included the oblique and bold variants as well.

Get them here. The standard disclaimers apply. They work for me and they validate in Font Book, but I don’t know squat about fonts and YMMV.

Here’s a screenshot from JEdit:

Fixed-Misc 13 in JEdit

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1. Ben E. replies:

Dear Nate,

You rock my world.

Thanks for this.

-ben

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