Font for mac osx that is as readable and compact as the default xterm (X11) font

Question

The font used in xterms is extremely compact yet readable. What font is that? The closest I\'ve found that I can use in other other applications is DejaVu Sans Mono or Bit

Answer 1

I have successfully gotten Emacs.App to use the beloved misc-fixed 7x14 font. And it looks GOOD.

1) download ucs-fonts.tar.gz from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

2) extract the file 7x14.bdf

3) install FontForge (fontforge.sourceforge.net)

4) open 7x14.bdf in fontforge

5) in fontforge do File->Generate Fonts with "No Outline Font" and "Apple bitmap only sfont (dfont)"

6) save as /Library/Fonts/FixedMedium7x14.dfont

7) in your .emacs (setq default-font "-apple-Fixed-medium-normal-normal--14----m-0-iso10646-1")

8) WIN