It exists fonts dedicated to terminals like :
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Hack
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Fantasque sans mono
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Inconsolata
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Fira mono
The fonts of the above list are all packaged for the main GNU+Linux
distributions (in Debian you’ll find them with a name prefixed by fonts-).
Those fonts are with a fixed width for all letters (monospaced). This allows to anticipate how things are displayed in a terminal, which can be sees as a grid of letters.
I started this blog with Inconsolata font for the monospaced command blocks,
then switched to fonts-fantasque-sans (and might switch to Hack Nerd one day).
A good console font should allow to easily distinguish :
1IilL (1)
0Oo (2)
ij (3)
5Ss (4)
7tT (5)
8B (6)
9g (7)
''"` (8)
:; (9)| 1 | one, cap-India, small-India, small-Lima, cap-Lima |
| 2 | zero, cap-Ohio, small-Ohio |
| 3 | small-India, small-Juliette |
| 4 | five, cap-Sierra, small-Sierra |
| 5 | seven, small-Tango, cap-Tango |
| 6 | eight, cap-Bravo |
| 7 | nine, small-Golf |
| 8 | two apostrophe / single quotes, one double quotes, one backtick |
| 9 | colon, semi-colon |
50 of them are easy to try via : https://www.programmingfonts.org
Where I spotted Hack, Monofoki or Quinze (a narrow one).
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