scientifica VS 3270font

Here is the font.

I tried Scientifica as a joke, and have ended up using it both in the terminal and editor: https://github.com/nerdypepper/scientifica

The blockiness just works for me. Reminds me of old DOS fonts. Coworkers hate looking at my screen though.

URxvt refuses to use a bitmap font. I want to use scientifica, and I've installed it previously and did `fc-cache -fv`. It works in other applications. In URxvt, I can successfully change the default font to something like JetBrains by putting urxvt*font: xft:JetBrains Mono:size=11 and that works just fine. Replacing `JetBrains Mono` with scientifica or any variation of it does not work. Thanks for any help.

fonts: scientifica, siji and lemon as fallback for non latin characters. I also use terminus (guess what blindless command sets).

Stuff I use: - distribution: Arch Linux - window manager: bspwm - terminal: alacritty - panel/bar: lemonbar-xft - editor: vim - music player: ncmpcpp - multiplexer: tmux - reader: zathura - image viewer: feh - browser: firefox - fonts: scientifica, lemon (fallback for non latin characters) and siji as icons <3 - colorscheme: iceberg <3 - screen locker: fork of slock with a patch I found in this sub... iirc - wallpapers: 1 2 3 - IRC client: irssi

font scientifica

Here you go (using scientifica font):

Fontforge is the tool I used to create and what I use to maintain my 3270 font, https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font.

It has that 1990's Unix workstation vibes, but, if I didn't like vintage tech, I wouldn't make a 3270 terminal font.

Is there a way to add programming ligatures to an existing font, similar to how Nerd Font patches existing fonts to add useful terminal glyphs like the Powerline symbols¹? I would love to have a ligatured version of that font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

1) the last sentence of the article implies that the author of the article abhor them as much as programming ligatures. I don't understand why but preference in taste, color, esthetic are not objective, nor absolute, so I am not the one to judge him.

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

Being distributed with Debian and downstreams, 11 years old, with 1.5K stars and 60+ forks is, by far, my most popular open source thing. My biggest shame is that it's not software, but a font that mimics the look of IBM's 3278-2 terminals.

And, of course, it's the font I use for terminals on all my machines.

Sorry, but no IDE comes with a proper 3278-like font. Not even IBM's Developer for z/OS comes with one (they commissioned that other font called Plex... who would take seriously a font named after a media player?).

Luckily, everyone can get one at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font.

Note: shameless plug ;-)