I find it frustrating to objectively compare fonts when their heights and widths can vary so much.
My requirement are fairly simple:
I want the the largest & most readable font setup in 13" 1280x800 retina display, while still being able to fit at least 161 characters across, so that I can have 80+ characters in each editor in a split screen setup.
My current setup is: 14pt Monaco with 88% horizontal spacing. This gives me 181x39 characters in iTerm.
Another similar setup is Mensch @ 13pt @ 88% horizontal & 118% vertical. I like the bitstream/deja vu variations like Panic Sans or Mensch.
It's a shame you can't use bitmapped fonts - I find that Terminus at 9pts is the most legible whilst being still small on a range of DPIs. The truetype version of Terminus is truly awful and does not carry over the legibility of it's bitmapped counterpart.
My requirement are fairly simple:
I want the the largest & most readable font setup in 13" 1280x800 retina display, while still being able to fit at least 161 characters across, so that I can have 80+ characters in each editor in a split screen setup.
My current setup is: 14pt Monaco with 88% horizontal spacing. This gives me 181x39 characters in iTerm.
Another similar setup is Mensch @ 13pt @ 88% horizontal & 118% vertical. I like the bitstream/deja vu variations like Panic Sans or Mensch.