On 13 Jan 2001, Jack Twilley wrote:

> So I've been searching for a new font, since I somehow blew away my
> old happy working font setup in Emacs.
> 
> I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and I'd
> prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also like a
> nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm currently using,
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".
> 
> Any recommendations?

I'm somewhat partial to the "Gamow" font from the Linux Font Project:

   http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp/

(Small sample of Gamow-9 attached.)