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http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

This is what I've been using (after more than a year with DejaVu Sans Mono) and I sometimes still stop to admire my terminal ;)

Using #e8e8e8 instead of pure white for the text color helps too.

Doesn't seem to be able to display the block characters neither on PuTTY, gvim on Windows or my Linux terminals/editors. Am I missing something obvious here?

You'll have difficulty on Windows if you use PuTTY, since it doesn't do font substitution.

Are there any Windows SSH programs that display? I get nothing but garbage or "." characters for any of the symbols.

Just tried on mintty, doesn't work there either.

schumacher clean works (i can cut + paste the title of this post to my shell) - it's a bitmap font that's been in X forever.

and has anyone worked out how to get recent cpu load into their bash prompt yet?

Liberation Mono and Terminus both work.