[leoncvlt]

I'm coding on a 1080p screen and I still very much prefer pixel-perfect fonts - Terminus (https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/) has been my font of choice, with proggy clean being a close second (use it for terminal panels and such). I see the site has a filter toggle to show those but with modern browser forcing anti-aliasing on all text, that's pretty uselesas.

On a related note, I noticed that there are a few fonts which seems to ignore system-wide or browser-wide antialiasing settings - one example would be the "MS Gothic" font, visible on this site: https://fountainofdreams.net/ where all text is crisp as hell. Why is this?

[flobosg]

There are TrueType fonts like MS Gothic that have embedded bitmap glyphs at small sizes.

[layer8]

Similarly for me, I find fonts without hinting to be useless at small sizes. Still haven’t found a better font than Lucida Console for coding.

[onetom]

Envy Code R is pretty will hinted between the 10-16px range. i used it without antialiasing any it's great on lower resolutions. u can still pack a lot of code onto a (sub)FullHD screen readably.

[layer8]

Thanks, I’ll have to give it a try, although one thing I don’t like is the concave-towards-the-tip style of curly braces that it uses. By that, I mean that I prefer each half (upper and lower) of the brace to only go in one direction horizontally, and not go back in the other horizontal direction before it reaches the tip where both halves meet. Are there good names for these two different styles?

[mpyne]

That website appears to specifically try to disable antialiasing with CSS properties (though for some reason both Chrome and Firefox still antialias the font text anyways).

Also, bitmap fonts won't be antialiased anyways, and it's possible to make vector fonts that define their shapes in 'pixelated' shapes as well, though that's not something you commonly see.