[Symmetry]

Generally speaking - most of the monospace fonts I see are totally fine and I really don't care about the differences between the 10 he mentioned as being good. But when I go to windows and run cmd.exe I'm blown away by just how ugly the font they use there is.

[HannoverFiste]

I'm blown away that you can change the font for cmd.exe, but you only get one other option: Lucida Console. Still, it beats "Raster Fonts".

[skermes]

You can actually add more fonts, though it requires editing the registry and doesn't work for all fonts, I think. It does let you at least get Consolas, which is good enough for the time I spend in cmd.

http://keznews.com/3308_Adding_fonts_to_cmd_exe

[yread]

Or you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ and you get other nice features as well

[to3m]

http://www.hassings.dk/lars/fonts.html

Follow instructions, select 6x13. Problem solved.

[sid0]

On Windows 7, you get Consolas as well -- and you can always edit the registry, as skermes pointed out.