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by Svip 4416 days ago
Strange your list seems to be lacking DejaVu Mono. Just never came about it? Not that I dislike your final choice of Fira Mono. But I always thought DejaVu Mono was the best monospaced typeface out there for years.
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Same here, DejaVu Mono in my terminal. Just tried the Fira Mono and it is OK but the line spacing seems far too big for my taste.
on xfce4-term the linespacing looks about 1.5 compared to Droid sans Mono.

Costs to many lines on screen, nice font though.

I have the same issue. A sad thing, the font looks good but the line spacing is way too much for my taste.
Download Fira Mono OT from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897009#c64, and you'll get 30% more lines.
It didn't come to mind but I do like DejaVu, just not a huge amount. It was typically the pick of the pre-installed for sure.