Terminus is a square geometric font by D. Zhekov and contributors. The SourceForge project listing was established on 2010-06-30. The font comes in a versatile range of different bitmap sizes and weights. This makes for slightly different looking (and thus unique) variations.
The Consoleet project provides OTF vector versions of all those sizes and weights, both with traditional jagged edges and smoothened diagonals (using N2 vectorizer from vfontas).
Archeology note: VileR pointed out a historic IBM font package by the name of HOWARD The Font 3.61, which contained neil14.fnt, neil16.fnt. Terminus-14/16 looks has a similar square-geometric look and some sharp edges (cf. C,D,M,W glyphs), but is ultimately subtly different. neil12 and Terminus-12 however are quite unlike each other.
Download
- Latest release from Consoleet: 4.49.1 (2022-09-20)
The version number follows that of upstream.
DL: consoleet-terminus-4.49.1.tar.zst - Some Linux distributions may have a readily installable package (e.g. openSUSE's consoleet-terminus-fonts)
- Release archive
Screenshots
- Comparison between
Consoleet Terminus-14(which is the original font in a OTF file) andConsoleet Terminus-14 Smooth(N2-vectorized, also in OTF) rendered with 21pt@96dpi.
- Comparison between Normal and Smooth versions of Terminus-16 Bold 24pt@96dpi
- Comparison between Normal and Smooth versions of Terminus-18 Bold 27pt@96dpi
- Comparison between Normal and
Smooth versions of Terminus-32 Regular at 48pt@96dpi
- Comparison between Normal and Smooth versions of Terminus-32 Bold at 48pt@96dpi
ax86 variant critique
ax86 (T. Blumenbach) has produced vector versions of Terminus. However, these look absolutely atrocious due to weird orientations of outline segments. (For example, see this outline for the AT sign.)
The Consoleet OTF versions do not have these problems — segments are always on a multiple of 45°.
