https://github.com/wikkyk/leggie

A pretty, legible 6x12, 8/9x14, 8/9x16, 9x18, 12x24 bitmap font with over 1700 glyphs. Perfect for terminals and text editors.
https://github.com/wikkyk/leggie

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A pretty, legible 6x12, 8/9x14, 8/9x16, 9x18, 12x24 bitmap font with over 1700 glyphs. Perfect for terminals and text editors.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/wikkyk/leggie
• Owner: wikkyk
• License: other
• Created: 2014-10-16T22:14:50.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-10-03T16:24:48.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-13T22:47:05.359Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: bitmap-font, font
• Language: Makefile
• Homepage: https://memleek.org/leggie
• Size: 338 KB
• Stars: 42
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README

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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 . 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/.