KakwaFont

Another 12 pixel monospaced bitmap font.

Presentation

KakwaFont is a 12 pixel monospaced bitmap font based on Terminus.

I found Terminus too wide, so I have changed most glyphs in order to have thin and clearly seperated characters.

I tried to make a clear difference between "(" and "{", "1" and "l", "0" and "O"...

The result is a clear font, well suited for programming and terminal.

Examples

Ascii Table:

Test:

Screenshot:

Code example:

License

KakwaFont is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

The license is available with a FAQ at scripts.sil.org.

Download

The latest version of KakwaFont can be downloaded here:

• KakwaFont latest

Previous versions can be found here:

• KakwaFont releases

Generate font files & Installation

Prerequisites

MacOS

brew install fontforge font-util

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install fontforge xfonts-utils

Targets

Build Targets

• all-fonts - Generate all formats PCF.GZ, PCF, and OTB formats (default).
• pcf - Generate PCF
• pcf.gz - Generate PCF.GZ
• otb - Generate OpenType Bitmap (OTB).

Utility Targets

• clean - Removes generated font files.

Installation

Installation Targets

• index - Creates an X11 font index in the font directory.
• rehash - Refreshes the X11 and fontconfig font cache.
• install-fonts - Install only the fonts
• install-conf - Install only the fc configuration

User Installation (Non-root)

As User:

make install INSTALL_USER=true -j

This installs fonts to ~/.fonts/ and the config to ~/.fonts.conf.d/. It also refresh fc-cache and X11 font cache.

System-wide Installation

As Root:

make install -j

This installs fonts to:

• otb - /usr/share/fonts/opentype/kakwafont/
• pcf.gz - /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/

And the config to /etc/fonts/conf.d/.

To tweak this install, use the usual variables (PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR, DESTDIR) or manually copy the fonts in the appropriate directories of your system.

Fontconfig & X11/Xwayland indexation

You can test the availability of the font with the following commands:

X11:

# Check font path:
xset q

# Optionally add your ~/.fonts to X font path
xset +fp ~/.fonts/

# Check presence in X11
xlsfonts | grep kakwa

Fontconfig:

# Check fontconfig font path:
fc-cache -v | grep -v '^/'

# Check Presence in Wayland/fontconfig
fc-list | grep kakwa

Trying KakwaFont

Here is a quick way to try KakwaFont:

# Xterm
xterm -bg black -fg white -fn -kakwa-kakwafont-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-72-72-C-60-ISO8859-1 -fb -kakwa-kakwafont-Medium-R-Bold--12-120-72-72-C-60-ISO8859-1

# Foot
foot --font kakwafont:size=10