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I'm partial to bitmap (or bitmap-like) fonts, esp. those derived from computers I once had or aspired to have. Current favorites are the Tandy2K font from the Ultimate PC Font Pack, the Atari ST 8X16 font, and Amiga Topaz (all variants).

For graphical Emacs, Iosevka.

For graphical Emacs, Iosevka

Seconding Iosevka! It's great font, and I've been meaning to check out the customization available online. (Though o do have a folder of my favorite PC Font Pack fonts, just not for everyday use :p)

Bitmap fonts also look great on low-quality, low resolution monitors (like my 82 DPI crap). Vector fonts give blurry text on medium to low sizes, and are simply unreadable with really small text.

That's the wonderful thing about bitmap fonts: they're designed to be readable even in less than ideal display conditions because they were made for old-school CRTs and some of them even for dot matrix LED signs and the like.

And I don't really mean in the "reading for pleasure" sense, you don't want to curl up with a New Yorker article rendered in Atari ST 8x16. But in the "all characters are visibly obviously distinct" sense, so when you are scrutinizing a piece of code, it's absolutely clear what character is what, so you can find and fix bugs and follow the flow.

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