Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again | Hacker News

The commenter says early real terminals used hardwired optically etched fonts.

Blurry DOS screens and odd aspect ratios pushed them toward Linux and better terminal fonts.

Their coding font is a modified, pixel-perfect Terminus with antialiasing turned off.

They use a 38-inch non-retina, non-4K display at 3840x1600, split into three columns.

For an Invaders-like game, Canvas fillText() was too blurry, so they drew text from integer bitmap arrays with fillRect().