On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 13:47:04 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Have you tried Lucida bright yet? When I was working my employer had a > presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to > improve clarity of writing. Me never having seen anything, I don't know how > good that font is.
Lucida bright is a font I associate with Latex (Tex). I doubt it is suitable for pure console use. There are contraints which the console imposes which, even with a framebuffer, limit the type of font which can be used. When it comes to it, a terminal under X does much better. > On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:36:05 > >From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! > >Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC) > >Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > >>On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >>>Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > >>>I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > >>>"tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. > >>>I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. > >> > >>I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc > >> > >>alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6" > >>alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14" > >>alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10" > >>alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12" > >>alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14" > >>alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16" > > > >Every time I use the console (which is a lot) I appreciate the existence > >of the Terminus font and could not do without it. > > > >>$ cat /etc/default/console-setup > >># CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON > >> > >># Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. > >> > >>ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" > >> > >>CHARMAP="UTF-8" > >> > >>CODESET="Lat15" > >># Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen > >> > >>VIDEOMODE= > >> > >># The following is an example how to use a braille font > >># FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf' > >>FONTFACE="Terminus" > >>FONTSIZE="10x20" > >>$ > >> > >>That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will > >>clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull) > >>if you are someone who looks at booting messages. > >> > >>I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the > > > >console-setup-linux provides the .psf files. In all his "playing about" > >I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with > > > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > > >>case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts > >>installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use > >>whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear. > >>However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something > >>different. > >> > >>Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW. > > > >Thanks for the detail. Something to try in the future. > > > > > > -- >