got some tips to augment tty?
(to be clear, i mean tty, not terminal/
bash/console in general)
how about this basic starter... use console-setup to change your tty font (and other stuff).
dont be upset if you cant run console setup. it's not quite like that
(not in my experience anyway, despite the misleading glimpse at man console-setup).
instead, edit /etc/default/console-setup
simple enough.
for example, mine now contains:
FONTFACE="cp850"
FONTSIZE="8x8"
(my fave console font yet... looks much nicer in cvlc (ascii vlc))
see also the package consoletools.

here's another method for listing the available fonts (so you can now what name to enter there... since these are not the same fonts as in Xwindows), that provides fairly readable output:
(cd /usr/share/consolefonts && find . -type f -name '*.psf.gz'; ) |
sed 's/.\/\(.*\).psf.gz/\1/' |
sort |
column