I'm not a #urxvt fanatic, but it's the fastest and lightest terminal I've found that doesn't just completely give up on correctness (though, like every terminal I've seen, its parsers aren't quite perfect). the only things I know of that it *can't* do are display colored emoji and run on Wayland...
@martensitingale thanks for the font size pointer. (no colored emojis is a feature in my book)
@martensitingale I need to give it a second shot. I stopped using it when I was having font rendering issues a few years ago and needed a working system fast.