# Terminus font

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/terminus-font/

9 people recommended Terminus font in Hacker News comments and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 7 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A sharp, pixel-perfect bitmap monospace font that people use in terminals and editors, with fairly complete Unicode support for a bitmap font.

Summary written by Claude from 15 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Sharp, crisp, no blurred edges (4 comments in the sample): "I like it so much my main coding font is a modified, pixel-perfect (no AA at all) version of Terminus since forever" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710856)) "Pixel-perfect Terminus for the win in my terminals and in my beloved Emacs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710876)) "it is actually a bitmap font, which means it is sharp and crisp" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580250))
- Workhorse coding font, pleasant to use (3 comments in the sample): "I fully agree with their description of it as a workhorse font." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709500)) "I also found the TTF version of Terminus to be pleasant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250172)) "For programming, you can also try out Terminus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295483))
- Used daily for years (2 comments in the sample): "For the past 10 years I've being using terminus bitmap font, so I have strong opinions about it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282458)) "I've been using it for a long time and I can't use a new computer or a work computer without it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710562))

## Other monospace fonts people recommend

- [Iosevka](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iosevka/): 95 recommend, 13 mixed, 9 criticize
- [Nordwand Mono](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nordwand-mono/): 30 recommend, 9 mixed, 4 criticize
- [JetBrains Mono](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jetbrains-mono/): 21 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize
- [Berkeley Mono](https://hackerapproved.com/p/berkeley-mono/): 21 recommend, 6 mixed, 5 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Terminus font", https://hackerapproved.com/p/terminus-font/ (9 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.