LOADFONT(1)LOADFONT(1)NAMEloadfont - load a font into the video card
SYNOPSISloadfont fontfile
EXAMPLESloadfont iso1.fnt # Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font
DESCRIPTION
Loadfont loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA). The
font character size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must con‐
tain 256 characters for a total size of 4 kilobytes.
Loadfont together with loadkeys allow the console and keyboard to be
customized to national conventions.
If it exists, the file /etc/font is loaded as a custom font by
/usr/etc/rc at boot time.
SEE ALSOconsole(4).
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