Fonts

• setfont from kbd is used to set console fonts (psf or psfu)
• spleen has better punctuation marks, symbols and brackets/braces compared to terminus
• 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

Best Fonts

• Spleen (spleen-8x16): https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
• Terminus: https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/
• Fira Code Mono (no psf): https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/216
• JetBrains Mono (no psf)
• Iosevka (huge, uses javascript)
• cool old fonts (no psf): https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

Resources

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