README.md (5667B)
1 # Spleen 2 3 Spleen is a monospaced bitmap font available in 6 sizes: 4 5 - 5x8 6 - 6x12 7 - 8x16 8 - 12x24 9 - 16x32 10 - 32x64 11 12 Each size is provided in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF), and 13 release tarballs contain the fonts in the following formats: `PCF`, `PSF` 14 (for the Linux console), and `OTF`. 15 16 17 All font sizes contain all ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters (Basic Latin and Latin-1 18 Supplement Unicode block), Latin Extended-A characters, as well as Box Drawing, 19 Block Elements, and Braille Patterns Unicode blocks, except for the 5x8 and the 20 6x12 versions. 21 22 Due to character size constraints, the 5x8 version only contains printable 23 ASCII characters, the Braille Patterns Unicode block, and light Box Drawing 24 characters. Please also note that there is no OpenType version for this size. 25 26 As of Spleen 1.8.0, there is now a 6x12 version containing the same Unicode 27 blocks as the 5x8 version. 28 29 Spleen also has support for Powerline symbols out of the box. 30 31 The font name is a reference to Baudelaire. 32 33 ## Screenshots 34 35 The following screenshots show Spleen 16x32 displaying code and prose. 36 37 ![Spleen - Hello][1] 38 39 ![Spleen - L'etranger][2] 40 41 ASCII characters for all sizes: 42 43 Spleen 5x8: 44 45 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 5x8][3] 46 47 Spleen 6x12: 48 49 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 6x12][4] 50 51 Spleen 8x16: 52 53 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 8x16][5] 54 55 Spleen 12x24: 56 57 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 12x24][6] 58 59 Spleen 16x32: 60 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 16x32][7] 61 62 Spleen 32x64: 63 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 32x64][8] 64 65 ## XLFD font names 66 67 ``` 68 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--8-80-72-72-c-50-iso10646-1 69 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1 70 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 71 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-120-iso10646-1 72 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--32-320-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1 73 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--64-640-72-72-c-320-iso10646-1 74 ``` 75 76 ## Packages 77 78 Packages are available for the following operating systems: 79 80 - [OpenBSD][9] 81 - [NetBSD][10] 82 - [FreeBSD][11] 83 - [Arch Linux][12] 84 - [Void Linux][13] 85 - [Nix][14] 86 - [Debian][15] 87 - [Ubuntu][16] 88 89 ## Manual installation 90 91 ### *BSD and Linux 92 93 Clone the repository, convert the files to the Portable Compiled Format 94 (PCF) using **bdftopcf** and run **mkfontdir** in the directory. 95 96 Alternatively, release tarballs provide PCF files for each size. 97 98 ### Mac OS X / macOS 99 100 macOS users should use the `.otf` files provided in the release tarballs. 101 102 Since version 1.7.0, `.dfont` files are not generated anymore. 103 104 ### Windows 105 106 Windows users should use the `.otf` files provided in the release tarballs. 107 108 ## Usage 109 110 ### *BSD and Linux 111 112 Update the font path to include **Spleen**: 113 114 xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/spleen/ 115 116 Update **.Xdefaults** and add one of the following directives: 117 118 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=8:antialias=false 119 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=12:antialias=false 120 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=16:antialias=false 121 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=24:antialias=false 122 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=32:antialias=false 123 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=64:antialias=false 124 125 Launch **xterm**. 126 127 Ubuntu has bitmap fonts support disabled by default, instructions to enable 128 it are available [here][17]. 129 130 ### Linux console 131 132 Release tarballs provide PSF files for each size, `setfont` can be used 133 to load and set the desired font. 134 135 ### NetBSD console 136 137 NetBSD has .fnt files for each size which can be loaded using wsfontload(8). 138 139 For example, to load Spleen 16x32: 140 141 wsfontload -N spleen-16x32 -w 16 -h 32 /usr/share/wscons/fonts/spleen-16x32.fnt 142 wsconsctl -dw font=spleen-16x32 143 144 ### FreeBSD console 145 146 The FreeBSD package contains .fnt files which can be loaded using 147 vidcontrol(1). 148 149 For example, to load Spleen 16x32: 150 151 vidcontrol -f /usr/local/share/fonts/spleen/spleen-16x32.fnt 152 153 ### OpenType versions 154 155 Spleen release tarballs now contains OTF versions generated automatically 156 from the BDF files, using [bdf2sfd][18]. Each font has a different name, 157 allowing them to be installed alongside. 158 159 They should be used in the exact size specified below, with anti-aliasing 160 disabled. 161 162 - Spleen 6x12: 9 Pt (12 pixels) 163 - Spleen 8x16: 12 Pt (16 pixels) 164 - Spleen 12x24: 18 Pt (24 pixels) 165 - Spleen 16x32: 24 Pt (32 pixels) 166 - Spleen 32x64: 48 Pt (64 pixels) 167 168 ## License 169 170 Spleen is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. See `LICENSE` file for 171 details. 172 173 ## Author 174 175 Spleen is developed by Frederic Cambus. 176 177 - Site: https://www.cambus.net 178 179 ## Resources 180 181 GitHub: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen 182 183 184 ## Trivia 185 186 - Spleen is the default font for OpenBSD consoles since January 2019 187 - Spleen was imported in the NetBSD src tree in March 2019 188 189 [1]: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/spleen-hello.png 190 [2]: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/spleen-etranger.png 191 [3]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-5x8.png 192 [4]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-6x12.png 193 [5]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-8x16.png 194 [6]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-12x24.png 195 [7]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-16x32.png 196 [8]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-32x64.png 197 [9]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/fonts/spleen/ 198 [10]: https://pkgsrc.se/fonts/spleen 199 [11]: https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/spleen/ 200 [12]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bdf-spleen/ 201 [13]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/font-spleen 202 [14]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/data/fonts/spleen 203 [15]: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=spleen 204 [16]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=spleen 205 [17]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Enabling_Bitmapped_Fonts 206 [18]: https://github.com/fcambus/bdf2sfd