A font is an entire set of glyphs that make up a typeface. Installing a font allows the user to use that font in order to change the appearance of text on an output device such as a screen or printer.
Questions tagged [fonts]
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Fix terminal after displaying a binary file
I'd tried command cat with an executable file:
cat /bin/ls
Now I can't read any word in this terminal (Linux console). How can I fix it?
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How to view a TTF font file?
Is there an application to simply preview a font from a TTF file without installing it?
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Can I change the font of the text-mode console?
I have a Unix-like OS installed without a windowing environment; i.e., just a text-mode console and no GUI.
Is it possible to change the font used by the console?
To be clear, I am not talking about the terminal emulator that comes with a desktop…
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Can GRUB font size be customised?
I would like to reduce the size of the font of GRUB boot loader. Is it possible and so how?
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What fonts are good for unicode glyphs
So I was looking at this answer on stackoverflow and realized that my fonts aren't covering a whole lot of the utf-8 unicode spectrum (as I get lots of squares). Does anyone know a font that will cover all of that post?
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Is there a unix command line tool that can analyze font files?
Given a directory of font files (TTF and OTF) I'd like to inspect each font and determine what style (regular, italic, bold, bold-italic) it is. Is there a command line tool for unix flavored operating systems that can do this? Or does anyone know…
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Font rendering issue in urxvt -- too much space between characters
Starting earlier today I am getting font rendering issues with rxvt-unicode. Specifically with many fonts I get an abundance of extra space between characters. In other fonts rxvt refuses to change sizes.
Here is an example of the spacing issue…
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Do any open source Linux terminals and fonts support ligatures?
The PragmataPro Font has some really killer examples where they render == as a single character and clean up a lot of other stuff.
Would any Linux terminals support this? And are there any alternatives to PragmataPro?
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Why do some characters show as squares in Chrome?
For example in the dev tools I get something like:
Some of these squares are at the end of lines, initially I thought they were carriage returns but it turns out they aren't.
Also, squares appear after = or > in many places where there is no…
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Find the best font for rendering a codepoint
How to find the appropriate font for rendering unicode codepoints ?
gnome-terminal find that characters like «⼼» can be rendered with fonts like Symbola rather than my terminal font or the codepoint-in-square fallback (). How ?
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Command to list all monospace fonts known to fontconfig
I'd like to have a list of all the monospace fonts that fontconfig knows of,
which command do I have to use?
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How do I change the screen font size when using a virtual console?
Using LDXE and Ubuntu, I can log into a virtual console via Ctrl+Alt+F1.
The text is far too small. How do I change the screen resolution to get a larger font?
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How to list all supported glyphs of a given font
Is there a CLI command or something to deal with fontforge e.g. to quickly get a list of all supported symbols in a given font?
Something like:
$ the_command_I_am_looking_for…
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How can I get better-looking fonts in my terminal (URxvt)?
I've noticed that the fonts in URxvt look a little bit low-res compared to fonts that I see in my browser, for example.
I was wondering how could I fix my .Xdefaults file to make the fonts have a little bit more detail and be sharper.
It might not…
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Change font in echo command
Is it possible to change the font attributes of the output of echo in either zsh or bash?
What I would like is something akin to:
echo -n "This is the font: normal "
echo -n $font=italic "italic,"
echo -n $font=bold "bold,"
echo -n "and"
echo -n…
Sardathrion - against SE abuse
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