Non-antialiased fonts in gnome-terminal
Linux has supported antialiased fonts for quite some years now, but the default (antialiased) terminal fonts have always bothered me. By default, GNOME Terminal 2.x uses an antialiased Monospace or Fixed font:
I antialiasing makes terminals looks ugly. I much prefer the font as used by xterm, or GNOME Terminal 1.x. Back when Linux didn’t have good support for antialiased fonts, GNOME Terminal 1.x used a non-antialiased (bitmap) version of the Fixed font.
Luckily, I can use bitmap fonts in all fontconfig-enabled applications (which automatically includes all GTK and Qt applications). Although the “Fixed” font is antialiased now, the “MiscFixed” font is not - in fact it’s exactly the same as the old non-antialiased “Fixed” font. After using the MiscFixed font, by terminal now looks like this:
Not only does this look nicer, it also makes GNOME Terminal faster. 
It’s quite a hassle to find this font. I don’t remember where I got this font from. So for my convenience, as well as for the convenience of the reader, I have attached the font to this blog post:
MiscFixed font - download here
Extract the contents to ~/.fonts, restart your terminal, and select “MiscFixed” as font in your terminal.
Enver ALTIN said,
April 16, 2007 @ 7:07 pm
Hi,
You can just enable bitmap fonts in ~/.fonts.conf and get bitmap fonts available for use in every fontconfig application. See manpage of fonts.conf for details.
-HTH
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Enver
Hongli said,
April 16, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
Yes but not all distributions provide the MiscFixed font. So I post it here.
Alan said,
April 18, 2007 @ 7:15 am
I also like non-antialiased fonts for terminals. You might be interested in Trevor Lowing’s page on monospace/fixed width programmer’s fonts. Lots of good fonts listed there. I’m currently using Terminus with rxvt-unicode on Linux and Sheldon with cmd.exe on Windows.
Tuomov’s got an interesting opinion on the subject, too.
Eric said,
April 30, 2008 @ 9:16 am
Thanks, my gnome terminal now looks nice and feels a lot faster!