{"slug": "terminus", "name": "Terminus", "category": "terminal", "category_name": "Terminal and shell", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 12, "warners": 0, "score": 6.743, "rising": -1.96, "first": "2025-11-24", "latest": "2026-09-20", "why": "Many nice UI affordances that something like Terminus provides are lacking", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 6, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Many nice UI affordances that something like Terminus provides are lacking", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "ax86.net", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Terminus"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 763373696, "item_id": 47710856, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710856", "by": "TacticalCoder", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm personally very font of Terminus", "excerpt": "> One of the reasons for starting to use Linux was using high quality fonts with the terminal. Yes! Speaking of Linux, I'm personally very font of Terminus. I like it so much my main coding font is a modified, pixel-perfect (no AA at all) version of Terminus since forever (I modified a few letters like the 'l' and the 's' and took a few glyphs from a pixel-perfect Monaco font [like %, &, @ and modified those a bit to", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal coding font", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"}, {"id": 763368673, "item_id": 47710542, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710542", "by": "enriquto", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One of the few bitmap fonts (with terminus) having somewhat complete unicode support and going to very large pixel sizes", "excerpt": "Conspicuously missing to this list is uwe's ttyp0 [0]. One of the few bitmap fonts (with terminus) having somewhat complete unicode support and going to very large pixel sizes, so that they are visible on modern screens with tiny pixels. [0] https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal bitmap font", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"}, {"id": 762171280, "item_id": 47635705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635705", "by": "djfergus", "date": "2026-04-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They score pretty well.", "excerpt": "Reminds me of the terminus agent/harness on the terminal-bench coding benchmark - they just send send keystrokes to a tmux session. They score pretty well. https://www.tbench.ai/news/terminus", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to be used with OpenClaw"}, {"id": 761284000, "item_id": 47580250, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580250", "by": "VorpalWay", "date": "2026-03-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Terminus TTF[1] is my favorite monospace font.", "excerpt": "Terminus TTF[1] is my favorite monospace font. The key thing for me is that it is actually a bitmap font, which means it is sharp and crisp. I get headaches from most types of anti-aliasing on traditional low DPI monitors. The colour bleed from subpixel AA is awful, but even most grey scale AA (except when using full hinting as well) is just so blurry. Unfortunately they seem to have missed it on this page. 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Definitely e", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["ssh terminal app", "terminal ui case study", "terminal coding font", "terminal bitmap font", "terminal coding agent harness", "remote terminal sessions"], "compared": [{"slug": "moshi", "name": "Moshi", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "iosevka", "name": "Iosevka", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708411", "title": "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646100", "title": "Moshi \u2013 SSH and Mosh Terminal for Claude Code and AI Agents", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679809", "title": "Zig \u2013 SPIR-V Backend Progress", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678320", "title": "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396", "title": "Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to be used with OpenClaw", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575403", "title": "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 796384976, "item_id": 49774061, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774061", "by": "marcosscriven", "date": "2026-09-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Terminus free version.", "excerpt": "Sorry to bring up an old post, but very little on HN about this. Do you find it worth \u00a320/year? I used Terminus free version.", "context": "", "use_case": "SSH terminal app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moshi \u2013 SSH and Mosh Terminal for Claude Code and AI Agents"}, {"id": 779756816, "item_id": 48734801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734801", "by": "noelwelsh", "date": "2026-06-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Here's a terminal UI system built around three main capabilities", "excerpt": "That's a reasonable way of looking at it, but capabilities are not restricted to low-level system properties. Here's a terminal UI system built around three main capabilities: - layout (adding components to the component tree) - event (handling user input events) - react (reacting to changes in reactive values) https://github.com/creativescala/terminus/tree/main/ui/shared/src/main/scala/terminus/ui This is the case s", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal UI case study", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zig \u2013 SPIR-V Backend Progress"}, {"id": 763373696, "item_id": 47710856, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710856", "by": "TacticalCoder", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm personally very font of Terminus", "excerpt": "> One of the reasons for starting to use Linux was using high quality fonts with the terminal. Yes! Speaking of Linux, I'm personally very font of Terminus. I like it so much my main coding font is a modified, pixel-perfect (no AA at all) version of Terminus since forever (I modified a few letters like the 'l' and the 's' and took a few glyphs from a pixel-perfect Monaco font [like %, &, @ and modified those a bit to", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal coding font", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"}, {"id": 763368673, "item_id": 47710542, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710542", "by": "enriquto", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One of the few bitmap fonts (with terminus) having somewhat complete unicode support and going to very large pixel sizes", "excerpt": "Conspicuously missing to this list is uwe's ttyp0 [0]. One of the few bitmap fonts (with terminus) having somewhat complete unicode support and going to very large pixel sizes, so that they are visible on modern screens with tiny pixels. [0] https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal bitmap font", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"}, {"id": 763123184, "item_id": 47695199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695199", "by": "isghoor", "date": "2026-04-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have two kindles used this way.", "excerpt": "Jailbreak and repurpose as an e-paper dashboard? I have two kindles used this way. https://github.com/usetrmnl/terminus https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-koreader (I built the koreader plugin)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"}, {"id": 762171280, "item_id": 47635705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635705", "by": "djfergus", "date": "2026-04-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They score pretty well.", "excerpt": "Reminds me of the terminus agent/harness on the terminal-bench coding benchmark - they just send send keystrokes to a tmux session. They score pretty well. https://www.tbench.ai/news/terminus", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to be used with OpenClaw"}, {"id": 761284000, "item_id": 47580250, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580250", "by": "VorpalWay", "date": "2026-03-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Terminus TTF[1] is my favorite monospace font.", "excerpt": "Terminus TTF[1] is my favorite monospace font. The key thing for me is that it is actually a bitmap font, which means it is sharp and crisp. I get headaches from most types of anti-aliasing on traditional low DPI monitors. The colour bleed from subpixel AA is awful, but even most grey scale AA (except when using full hinting as well) is just so blurry. Unfortunately they seem to have missed it on this page. 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Definitely e", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"}, {"id": 744736736, "item_id": 46546046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546046", "by": "alright2565", "date": "2026-01-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "is basically just a tmux session and LLM in a loop.", "excerpt": "But does that extra complexity actually improve performance? https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0 says yes, but not as much as you'd think. \"Terminus\" is basically just a tmux session and LLM in a loop.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code"}, {"id": 744327136, "item_id": 46520446, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520446", "by": "kator", "date": "2026-01-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Terminus with Zellij and keep about 8 sessions going", "excerpt": "I use Terminus with Zellij and keep about 8 sessions going with a combination of Claude and Codex, and once in a while, Gemini. It's great when you're sitting in a docotor's office lobby bored out of your skull and when you get back to your desk you just join the session and it's all right there.", "context": "", "use_case": "remote terminal sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"}, {"id": 740002753, "item_id": 46250172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250172", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2025-12-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I also found the TTF version of Terminus to be pleasant", "excerpt": "Really like the idea of a font with extremely broad glyph support, sadly it looks really blurry on any custom size, like if I'd try to use this font in my IDE but would want to make it smaller so I can fit more text on the screen. For that particular use case (tbh mostly aesthetics than glyph support), I also found the TTF version of Terminus to be pleasant: https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ though JetBrains Mono ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GNU Unifont"}, {"id": 736638352, "item_id": 46039897, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039897", "by": "mark_l_watson", "date": "2025-11-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use an app like Terminus or Prompt to access a remote server", "excerpt": "I use an app like Terminus or Prompt to access a remote server. I have a keyboard and a mouse for my iPad Pro.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Editing Code in Emacs"}]}