If other people want to test: sudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console dpkg -L fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console | grep -m1 .psf | xargs sudo setfont -C /dev/tty2
and then it's possible to flick between: Ctrl-Alt-F1 (tty1 showing Ubuntu Mono Regular rendered to 8x16) Ctrl-Alt-F2 (tty2 showing default: Terminus) Ctrl-Alt-F7 (GUI desktop) The hinting information is used for generation of the bitmaps, but it's pretty sub-optimal. Rather than attempt to improve the hinting just to export to a bitmap …it would probably be faster/more efficient to take the Ubuntu Mono design principles and hunt and peck pixels in a bitmap editor as everyone did in the 1990s. This would then not be derived either, and so with a BSD/MIT/PD licence it could be built to fall back on existing Terminus and so provide both useful coverage and the slight variations of the 'i' 'l', 'm' for the look and feel (because of the limited number of pixels most glyphs in terminal tend towards looking the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861334 Title: [nc] Ship Ubuntu Mono .psf as default console font in Ubuntu 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-font-family-sources/+bug/861334/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
