Fonts

• Spleen is a bitmap font, and bitmap fonts (like terminus) aren’t preferred

• Console font is spleen-8x16

• Spleen has better punctuation marks, symbols and brackets/braces compared to terminus

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monospaced_typefaces

• https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/console-fonts.html

• kbd (setfont) is used to set console fonts

• PC Screen Font (PSF) is a bitmap font format currently employed by the Linux kernel for console fonts.

• A console-setup/vconsole service should check /etc/default/console-setup and /etc/vconsole.conf

• To change console fonts use setfont from kbd, the font must be in psf or psfu:

  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console
  • https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/console-fonts.html
  • https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter09/usage.html

Best terminal fonts

• Terminus (https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/)

• [YES] Spleen (https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/)

• Fira Code Mono (no psf available) (https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/216)

• Iosevka (huge and uses javascript, so don’t use it)

• JetBrains Mono (no psf available)

• cool old fonts, but no psf variant:

  • https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/?2
  • https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/