Nice(r) console fonts
Ever wanted to get a nicer console font than the default one delivered with Debian?
First you need to get a nice font. I chose console-terminus:
$ sudo aptitude install console-terminus
that alone won’t change anything but install a whole bunch of new fonts into /usr/share/consolefonts/. To enable one of them, you have to edit /etc/console-tools/config:
set SCREEN_FONT=Uni3-Terminus16
Optional: comment out the following lines with SCREEN_FONT_vc*, so every terminal will have the same settings.
To test the new font:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh start
The new font kicks in at the second half of the boot process, which is fixable but sufficient for me. I think the new font is much easier to the eyes than the default one, especially on big monitors with high resolutions.
Tags: debian
January 10th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
great tip, thanks
January 10th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
> The new font kicks in at the second half of the boot process, which is fixable but sufficient for me.
Can you give a hint how that would be fixable, please?
January 10th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Alternatively there’s Inconsolata: see the corresponding debaday article: http://debaday.debian.net/2007/08/15/rd-ttf-inconsolata-an-open-font-for-your-terminal-and-for-nice-code-printouts/
January 10th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
@yosh: how can inconsolata be used on the console? (we’re not talking about x terminals here and afaik there’s no simple ttf to console(pcf?) tool around for newbies)
nice post, keep it up
January 12th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Terminus is also quite useful if you are using a larger resolution framebuffer consule. A standard 8×16 font might be much too small to read, so you can just pick one with a more appropriate size.