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Crystal

Not much is known about this seemingly freely available font. It has a slashed zero, but lacks bold and italic. Also, it's character set is very limited and omits things like the euro and copyright signs (although it does include box drawing characters).

By Jerry Fitzpatrick
http://www.dafont.com/crystal.font

#sans #free #programming #fonts #typography

Selectric

This font, that seems to be available freely, has a name that refers to the IBM Selectric. Like Courier before it, it seems to be derived from that typewriter. It might not be the best choice for coding (no distinct zero), but good typewriter fonts are still great for writing.

By Paradox 2005 http://www.dafont.com/paradox-2005.d961

#sans #writing #fonts #typography #free

Terminus

"Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers. Version 4.39 contains 891 characters, covers about 120 language sets and supports ISO8859-1/2/5/7/9/13/15/16, Paratype-PT154/PT254, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Esperanto, many IBM, Windows and Macintosh code pages, as well as the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm pseudographic characters."

Terminus is a very complete bitmap font, with very clean and clear rendering at a number of sizes. It's coverage is impressive, and even features a bold weight. The zero is slahed to set it apart. Sadly the links on the sourceforge site are broken.

By Dimitar Zhekov
License: SIL-OFL
Format incompatible
http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net

#pixel #free #sans #programming #fonts #typography

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Lucida Console

It has been extended to include mathematical characters for TeX. First created almost 30, Lucida Console has been updated in 2014 to include bold and italic, and it's now the default Notepad font in Windows 8.

By Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes (1985)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida_(typeface)

#1985 #latex #bigelow #holmes #sans #commercial #professional #programming #fonts #typography

Nu Sans Monospaced

Inspired by the IBM Selectric, Nu Sans was designed as a sans alternative to Courier. It features a slahed zero and has in later years been upgraded with bold and italic versions.

By Scooter Graphics (1996)
http://www.scootergraphics.com/nusansmono/index.html

#sans #courier #commercial #1996 #programming #fonts #typography

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