New (large) Console Fonts for Linux, Freebsd, Netbsd, and Openbsd
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A new set of large console fonts has been released for various BSD and Linux operating systems, sparking interest among users looking for improved terminal experiences.
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Features:
More font formats: now including console fonts for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
Larger sizes: now from 6x11 to 18x40 (optionally scaled to 36x80) in normal, bold, and italic.
About 3800 Unicode characters (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Thai, Tifinagh, Braille).
More stylistic variants (plain, dotted, or slashed zero; high or low underline; Russian, Serbian, or Bulgarian Cyrillic; etc.)
More Linux console codesets than you could ever imagine (Powerline graphics, a few Nerdfont graphics, modern languages from Abkhaz to Zulu, polytonic Greek, Old English, etc.).
Web page: <https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/>
Enjoy, Uwe