A modern bitmap font for Linux terminal that combines the best features of other very good bitmap fonts.
bynfont
is a well-balanced mix of modern-looking glyphs, differentiable characters (0/O, l/1), rudimentary Powerline support, and a sleek style more similar to modern programming fonts.
The font uses Tamzen For Powerline 8x16 as a base and overhauls it, taking the box-drawing characters from Terminus.
Some symbols have been swapped around and replaced for use in emoticons; others have more sensible and commonly-used characters in place of them.
This font was edited using psftools, but does not require it for installation.
You can download bynfont.psfu.gz
directly from Releases. Then, in the Linux console/TTY (Ctrl
+ Alt
+ F3
..F6
), navigate to the directory and use setfont [-d] bynfont.psfu.gz
(-d
will have is display at double size). This will apply the font to this console until next reboot.
The font is available in the AUR: yay -S bynfont
Locate the consolefonts
directory for your Linux distribution (e.g. /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts
on Arch-based distros). Place bynfont.psfu.gz
directly in this directory, then set it with setfont bynfont
.
To make this change persistent, edit /etc/vconsole.conf
:
KEYMAP=us
FONT=bynfont
Then regenerate your initramfs with dracut
/mkinitcpio
.