[Solved] Bigger and prettier fonts for the (raw) console?

xiaq · 2011-03-06 07:28:50

Working under the console is useful and sometimes necessary, but on my 15.1" laptop with resolution 1366x768, the font is too small. I tried changing the resolution to 1024x720 or 800x600, but then the whole display looks ugly. Therefore I decided that the best solution is to choose a big console font.
I looked into /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts, and it seems that the largest standard size is 8x16. There is a notable exception though, namely sun12x22, but unfortunately I don't like it. Where can I find more console fonts? Or is there an easy way to make one myself, say, by converting an existing ttf to a psfu one or what? I know that the console fonts only support monochrome, and without anti-aliasing and hinting the TTF font can look really bad, but it's worth trying after all.

Last edited by xiaq (2011-03-06 08:37:57)

jasonwryan · 2011-03-06 07:40:28

Check out terminus (community): it comes in a good range of sizes...

xiaq · 2011-03-06 07:58:00

jasonwryan wrote:

Check out terminus (community): it comes in a good range of sizes...

Thanks a lot. But I can't use the installed fonts with setfont. Any hints?

xiaq · 2011-03-06 08:03:19

xiaq wrote:

jasonwryan wrote:
Check out terminus (community): it comes in a good range of sizes...
Thanks a lot. But I can't use the installed fonts with setfont. Any hints?

Oh I was wrong. I can use them with setfont. Thanks!

jasonwryan · 2011-03-06 08:03:34

Can't use? What does that mean? They don't appear? A little specificity goes a long way...

jasonwryan · 2011-03-06 08:04:23

Cool. Please mark your thread as [Solved]

tomk · 2011-03-06 08:36:37

setfont works as expected here e.g.

setfont ter-p24n.psf.gz

What response are you getting, if any?

xiaq · 2011-03-06 08:36:47

jasonwryan wrote:

Can't use? What does that mean? They don't appear? A little specificity goes a long way...

I cd-ed into /usr/share/fonts/local and tried setfont there, since that's what pacman told me terminus gets installed to. And setfont failed with "bad input file size".
However I soon noticed that /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts is also populated with the terminus fonts. Running setfont there turned out fine. The font looks nice. I'll mark the thread [solved] and a few more thanks

tomk · 2011-03-06 08:38:39

You don't need to cd - setfont looks in that dir by default.

xiaq · 2011-03-06 08:41:47

tomk wrote:

You don't need to cd - setfont looks in that dir by default.

I knew that I was mistaken when pacman told me the fonts get installed to somewhere else. I also noted that the version in /usr/share/fonts/local is in pcf format, which is not supported by the console.

Mr.Elendig · 2011-03-06 14:04:37

It warns you about the location because xorg does not by default look in /usr/share/fonts/local , so you have to add it to the fontpath explicitly to use terminus in X

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[Solved] Bigger and prettier fonts for the (raw) console?

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