Leggie
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Leggie is a pleasant, legible monospaced (character cell) bitmap font. It was
designed for readability and long work in a terminal. It's one of the very few
sans-serif monospace fonts. Leggie is available in the following sizes:
- 6x12 px
- 9x14 px (EGA-style bold only)
- 9x16 px (VGA-style bold only)
- 9x18 px
- 12x24 px
and styles:
- Normal
- Bold
- Italic
- Bold italic.
I think leggie is more readable than Terminus, because the letters are slightly
shorter, resulting in a bit more inter-line space (while still giving you the
same number of lines).
There is a good selection of glyphs available:
- ASCII
- ISO 8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,13,14,15,16}
- IPA
- Microsoft WGL4
- VT100 graphics
- Common block drawing graphics
- Symbols from the default VGA font (a.k.a. Codepage 437)
- Some mathematics
- Powerline
- Nice punctuation
- Braille (3- and 4-row)
- ಠ_ಠ
- ...
Overall, all living European languages and some Asian languages are supported.
Currently supported scripts are: Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian (Mkhedruli),
Hebrew, Latin (including Vietnamese and Pinyin).
I am always interested in adding new glyphs, so please let me know if there are
any characters/languages that you need and I will try to add them.
Bold and italic
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The extra styles are still being tested and for now only contain the glyphs from
the ISO 8859 charsets (all supported parts).
Patches
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Version 0.1707.2 introduced optional patches. Look in the patches directory and
if you see anything you like, just apply them: patch < patches/your.patch.
Please send me your patches to <w@kerr.sh>. Make sure to include your name,
email address, and a list of glyphs you've changed.
Linux console fonts (PSF)
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Version 2.1651 introduced support for generating Linux console fonts. Just run
make psf. Make sure to have the bdf2psf program installed, it's available in
most popular distributions and from
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/bdf2psf/download.
Installing
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To only install the BDFs, run make installbdf. By default it installs to
/usr/share/fonts. If you want to install to a custom directory, e.g. ~/.fonts,
run make BDFDEST=~/.fonts installbdf.
To install the PSFs, run make installpsf. By default it installs to
/usr/share/consolefonts. Similar to the above, you can pass PSFDEST to install
to a custom directory.
To install both, run make install. You can still pass BDFDEST and PSFDEST.
Legal
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Leggie is Copyright 2012-2018 Wiktor Kerr.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
Please see the LICENCE file or https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.