What fonts do you use with emacs or xterm etc?

I use exwm with it

I personally like inconsolata

Nimbus Mono, because I prefer serif fonts. Most monospaced fonts are sans-serif, so my choice is very limited.

I use Dejavu Sans Mono.

I changed my mind. ctrl+alt+F2.

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup ; emacs (and of course ratpoison/abrowser on tty1 but there is no distraction).

I'm using a refurbished thinkpad x270 12,5" and the experience really depend on the size of the screen.
I tried emacs in tty: really good
I tried gtk emacs: really good
I tried mate-terminal with emacs: really good

The bigger the screen is, the more you need to move your head. It's not the same experience. In 4k or not. And in 4k you need to adjust the fonts/screen and I'm not an expert for that, it's a good resolution for movies. I didn't know that in the past :-)

Emacs is an amazing tool! In tty console it serve as a "window/buffer manager". You apply command to the buffer in front of you. It's also have small "applications" (dired, ansi-term, info, eww, ...)

For what I see on the web, rms use it all the time in tty mode.
From wikipedia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Richard_Matthew_Stallman_working_on_his_Lemote_Machine.JPG

The biggest challenge is to find the correct screen resolution when you boot in tty.

From my crappy machine and with 32" 4k monitor

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=2560x1440"

I'm curious about what people use. I enjoy more in tty than with a graphical terminal emulator. But it's personal taste.

I found on the web that it's possible to convert Windows user :-)
https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*ZPWhfw8wfDiiOELGNQOWMg.png

And there are a lot of blog posts about users of emacs.
https://frostyx.cz/posts/a-year-with-emacs

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More and more playing and thank you trisquel devs for the default color theme with mate. Look awesome! Default xterm with emacs -nw

I'm a big fan of Terminus at 9pt size in most cases. Beautiful and crisp monospace bitmap font. Some programs have killed support for bitmap fonts, so you can't enjoy it everywhere. I changed terminal emulators a couple times because of this. Anything that uses Pango can't use bitmap fonts anymore.
Another bitmap font I like is tewi, but it's less commonly packaged in distros, so I've gotten used to using Terminus more often. Scientifica is decent as well. I tried the lemon font for a while, but it's a bit too small/intense for regular usage. Looks good in screenshots, though.