As I’m growing older, I appreciate those typefaces for the sheer fucking contrast and readability they have. On low DPI screens, I seek bitmap fonts for the UI (and it disappoints me that the support for them in toolkits seems to be getting shoddier, to the point that it’s easier to use TrueType fonts that mimic bitmaps); on high DPI screens, I’m using serif fonts.
I’m toying with the idea of purely black and white themes so I can use them on my eInk screens, too, pity there’s so little time.
I recently played around with the Badger2040 board, which has a low-res eInk screen, and was very disappointed that the firmware does not contain a single old-school terminal-oriented bitmap font - making all text look horrible almost on purpose. Hardware hackers can be occasionally puzzling in their choices.
I’m toying with the idea of purely black and white themes so I can use them on my eInk screens, too, pity there’s so little time.