What fonts are the most readable at the smallest sizes?

My screen's resolution sucks, so there's no amount of tweaking that will fix that. But if I set most fonts to less than 8, they are horrible. Some are tolerable at 7, like DejaVu Sans and Droid Sans.
Any other fonts that do well at small sizes? What are your preferred text-editor fonts?

You already listed the best ones.
Steve Matteson is probably the most successful creator of screen fonts: Liberation fonts, Droid fonts, Open Sans, Segoe (the latter may not be as useful as it's specifically optimised for Windows).
PT Sans and Serif are also very solid if you want something a little quirkier, Ubuntu is also very well done if you like spurless Sans Serifs.
Beyond that... trial and error. Most other freely available fonts aren't optimised for the screen to the same degree, but some will render well on a given system more or less by chance.

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