On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look >> "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from >> terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good but still a little too wide for >> my taste. > > Thanks for the pointer to that rather nice font. I think the problem, if > yours is like mine in having a 1280x800 screen, is that the frame buffer > simply takes a standard 4:3 screen resolution and stretches it to fit. Thus > I have a distorted 1024x768 console. > > The only way to get a narrower font seems to be to design one six or seven > pixels wide instead of the usual eight. Or at least, to design a tall, > narrow font that would look right when stretched in this way. > > I too would like to know if someone discovers one like this.
Well, my framebuffer is 1280x720 which is proper 16:9 aspect ratio for my monitor, but the consolefonts I've tried just don't seem quite my flavor. I want a small font (so I can fit a lot of characters in the screen) without being "short", by which I mean I'd rather have an 8x16 font than an 8x8. In Konsole I'm using "Fixed [ETL]" 10pt, whatever that is, maybe it's the default, I can't remember, but it's nice.
