Recommendations for console and/or terminal fonts?

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fonz

So, what fonts are you using?

As far as the console is concerned, I know there's a font editor in ports (sysutils/fonteditfs) but it appears to only support 8x16 at the moment and I don't know of any publicly released fonts anyway except for the ones in base (and for what it's worth: I'm currently using Swiss). As for X11 terminal emulators (x11/xterm and friends) I'm sure there are plenty of nice fonts out there, but when I checked my ~/.Xdefaults I discovered that I never bothered to explicitly specify a font and am instead just using whatever is the default font.

Any recommendations? Fonts that support accented characters would be nice, but I could live with just low-ASCII.
 
This is what my PuTTY says it's using:

Code: 
server:-dec-terminal-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1

Works for me.
 
I use DejaVu Sans Mono. They seem to be the best.

I would also consider:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
as fallback

Also you may want to check out Droid Sans Mono. AFAIR it was very good, however there was one tiny thing that I couldn't stand: (If I remember correctly) big O and 0 (zero) were just too similar.
 
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