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Been using this (VGA16) on both linux and Mac in all editors, terminals, IDEs for about a year. It's by far the best typeface for me, and I've tried many.

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Can you detail your Mac setup a bit? I've tried out these fonts, but end up struggling to get the right size, and disabling antialiasing makes things look pretty ugly.

Sure! I miswrote VGA16, it's actually VGA8. I'm on a retina display, and set the size to 16pt. I do have anti-alias disabled in e.g. iTerm2, but visually it makes no difference.

In iTerm2 I disable "Draw bold text in bold font". For vim I use MacVim sometimes, which hash gfn=PxPlus IBM VGA8:h16.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TBuS4

Ah, that's the kicker. Looks great on my MBP's built-in retina display, but crap on my older external monitors. So far the only font I've been able to use on those without anti-aliasing is Monaco.

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