When comparing Terminus vs Input Mono, the Slant community recommends Terminus for most people. In the question“What are the best fonts to use in a terminal emulator?” Terminus is ranked 2nd while Input Mono is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Terminus is:
Many fonts look terrible without anti-aliasing. Not Terminus, it looks clear and crisp.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Looks great even without anti-aliasing
Many fonts look terrible without anti-aliasing. Not Terminus, it looks clear and crisp.
Pro Beautiful crunch pixels
Pro Pixel-perfect rendering
No blurry characters ever. Every pixel on the screen is used to its full capacity.
Pro Terminus is not going fat
Many fonts are fatty when they are used relatively large in size but Terminus does not have this issue. And now it works with IDEA.
Pro Customizable
Many letter-forms are available in Input Mono, the width and line-height of which are changeable. There are also non-monospaced sans and sans-serif forms available.
Pro Great on small-sized, high-resolution screens
Input Mono is designed to look good on HiDPI and low-resolution screens of variable zoom levels.
Pro Free for private use
Pro Large punctuation
The punctuation symbols are larger than in other traditional fonts, making for greater visibility.
Pro Non-monospaced sibling fonts
In addition to the monospaced variant, the Input family of fonts includes serif and non-serif proportional font families.
Cons
Con Italics are not very appealing
Italicized Terminus TTF doesn't appear as aesthetically pleasing as it was intended.
Con It doesn't look very nice
Con Square
Con Easy to be confused with different brands of the same or similar name
Like Terminus (Russian production company), Terminus (terminal emulator) or Termius (SSH client).