Comments on: A monospace font beauty pageant

By: More vaguely unattached ideas « Motho ke motho ka botho

More vaguely unattached ideas « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:50:05 +0000

[...] the way of updates, I should mention that the Tamsyn font I learned about a month ago has been updated to include line drawing symbols, which makes it much more attractive [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:59:35 +0000

Great! I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!

By: scott

scott — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:59:41 +0000

FYI – I’ve now added line drawing chars to Tamsyn font. Its still what I’d call “beta”, but the feedback has been positive. Next stop: full CP437 and ISO8859-1 coverage, and a version for Mac.

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Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:38:28 +0000

[...] A monospace font beauty pageant I got a note the other day from Sam Block about the Tamsyn font, which is a beautiful little arrangement in a nice array of small point sizes. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:47:58 +0000

For me? Well, Ray … probably 486 or before. I haven’t even seen a nonworking 486 in years, let alone a working one. I’d love to try to get one working, but I have a feeling it will be a while before I see another. Almost sad, that is. …

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:03:39 +0000

Profont is highly recommended. It’s in AUR too.

http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:46:33 +0000

Hi, thanks for mentioning Tamsyn font. It is still very much in active development. Line drawing characters are coming soon.
- Scott

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:22:54 +0000

Just wondering, how old does a computer have to be to be consider old to you?

By: godmaxwell

godmaxwell — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:42:59 +0000

Is a font for the ttys?

I prefer change my fonts manually:

http://blog.venthur.de/2009/01/10/nicer-console-fonts/

Greetings!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:16:55 +0000

Hmm.. I have been trying to discover how to change console fonts based on your recent post, on my gNewSense (Debian-squeeze-based) system). I found the “consolechars” command which works for changing to pre-loaded fonts, but when trying to use new fonts, the command outputs the error: “read_simple_font(): Bad font file format” Are you using a different command to change fonts? Are there additional steps required to add new fonts?