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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Making a new frame-buffer console font
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:43:24
Message-Id: mb2ne2$i7v$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font by wabenbau@gmail.com
1 On 2015-02-04, <wabenbau@×××××.com> <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Am Mittwoch, 04.02.2015 um 15:33
3 > schrieb Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>:
4 >
5 >> >From my own experience I can only suggest terminus-font; you might
6 >> >find
7 >> an acceptable compromise there as its heights range from 12 to 32
8 >> pixels, so I suppose its widths will range from 6 to 16. Or perhaps
9 >> some font will call itself [something]-wide.
10 >
11 > I also use terminus-font as console font and even as X11 desktop font
12 > since many years. It's readability is very good.
13
14 I like terminus a lot -- especially for low DPI use.
15
16 I'm also very fond of sun12x22.psfu.gz as a console font for high DPI
17 situations [some of my affaction for that font is probably a result of
18 nostalgic feelings for my Sun-3 and Sun-4 boxes of old.]
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