Alternative terminal emulators for OS X
I really like visor:
http://visor.binaryage.com/
"Visor is a system wide terminal accessible via hotkey"
It looks cool, is very useful, and is customizable ad nauseam.
I use iTerm, I don't have a problem with the fonts, but it is an alternative.
iTerm2 has a pending feature request to provide a more Windows-looking style of anti-aliasing since a lot of people don't like how OS X does it. Star this issue to get updates when it changes: http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=312