This is a font I designed for working comfortably on my new high resolution (1920x1200, 15.4") noteboot display. It is heavily based on Jim Knobles 'neep-alt' font.
The font is available in both iso8859-1 (Latin-1 Western Europe) and iso8859-15 (Latin-9 Western europe + € sign) encoding.
The fontsize is 08x16. I also provide a alternative font, mainly the same characters, but more densly packed and a few modifications to make wide characters fit in the bounding box. I don't recommend this font, though.
Design considerations
- Clean, avoid clutter
- Very clear distinction between similar characters like 0/O/o, i/I/l/1/|
- Suitable for light text on a dark background.
- Not to densly packed to allow a good seperation between characters
Download
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08x16
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The main 8x16 font, Latin-1 and Latin-9 encoding |
| X11 .bdf | iso8859-1 / Latin 1 |
| X11 .bdf | iso8859-15 / Latin 9 (euro sign) |
| Win32 .fon | iso8859-1 / Latin 1 |
| Win32 .fon | iso8859-15 / Latin 9 (euro sign) |
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07x14
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Almost the same as above, but more densly packed |
| X11 .bdf | iso8859-1 / Latin 1 |
| X11 .bdf | iso8859-15 / Latin 9 (euro sign) |
| Win32 .fon | iso8859-1 / Latin 1 |
| Win32 .fon | iso8859-15 / Latin 9 (euro sign) |
X11 (linux) Install
- Copy the bdf file to one of your X11 font dirs, e.g. /usr/share/font/X11/misc
- Run 'makefontdir /usr/share/font/X11/misc'
- Restart X11 or run 'xset +fp /usr/share/font/X11/misc'
- Configure your terminal to use the font. For example :
rxvt -fg green -bg black -fn '-zevv-peep-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-15' '
- If you have any problems, verify if xlsfonts lists the font.