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1 ``` 2 3 :::::::::::::::::::: 4 ::: ::: 5 _____ _______ __. ________ ________ ________. ::: 6 _) _//__ __/ __ / |.\ __ /.\ __ /.\ _. | ::: 7 .\____ /.\ )/ / || )/ | )/ | \| | ::: 8 | )/ | __/| \ _____| _____| | |_ ::: 9 |____ |_____| |_____/____\\ |____\\ | |____/ ::: 10 - -- -- \_____| -H7--------------------------- `----' ----- ::: - - 11 ::: ::: 12 :::::::::::::::::::: 13 14 ``` 15 16 # Spleen 17 18 Spleen is a monospaced bitmap font available in 6 sizes: 19 20 - 5x8 21 - 6x12 22 - 8x16 23 - 12x24 24 - 16x32 25 - 32x64 26 27 Each size is provided in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF), and 28 release tarballs contain the fonts in the following formats: `PCF`, `PSF` 29 (for the Linux console), `OTB`, `OTF`, and `.dfont` for macOS users. 30 31 All font sizes contain all ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters (Basic Latin and Latin-1 32 Supplement Unicode block), Latin Extended-A characters, as well as Box Drawing, 33 Block Elements, and Braille Patterns Unicode blocks, except for the 5x8 and the 34 6x12 versions. 35 36 Due to character size constraints, the 5x8 version only contains printable 37 ASCII characters, the Braille Patterns Unicode block, and light Box Drawing 38 characters. Please also note that there is no OpenType version for this size. 39 40 As of Spleen 1.8.0, there is now a 6x12 version containing the same Unicode 41 blocks as the 5x8 version and the Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block. 42 43 Spleen also has support for Powerline symbols out of the box. 44 45 The font name is a reference to Baudelaire. 46 47 ## Screenshots 48 49 The following screenshots show Spleen 16x32 displaying code and prose. 50 51 ![Spleen - Hello][1] 52 53 ![Spleen - L'etranger][2] 54 55 ASCII characters for all sizes: 56 57 Spleen 5x8: 58 59 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 5x8][3] 60 61 Spleen 6x12: 62 63 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 6x12][4] 64 65 Spleen 8x16: 66 67 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 8x16][5] 68 69 Spleen 12x24: 70 71 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 12x24][6] 72 73 Spleen 16x32: 74 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 16x32][7] 75 76 Spleen 32x64: 77 ![Spleen - ASCII characters - 32x64][8] 78 79 ## XLFD font names 80 81 ``` 82 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--8-80-72-72-c-50-iso10646-1 83 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1 84 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 85 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-120-iso10646-1 86 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--32-320-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1 87 -misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--64-640-72-72-c-320-iso10646-1 88 ``` 89 90 ## Packages 91 92 Packages are available for the following operating systems: 93 94 - [OpenBSD][9] 95 - [NetBSD][10] 96 - [FreeBSD][11] 97 - [Arch Linux][12] 98 - [Void Linux][13] 99 - [Nix][14] 100 - [Debian][15] 101 - [Ubuntu][16] 102 103 ## Manual installation 104 105 ### *BSD and Linux 106 107 Clone the repository, convert the files to the Portable Compiled Format 108 (PCF) using **bdftopcf** and run **mkfontdir** in the directory. 109 110 Alternatively, release tarballs provide PCF files for each size. 111 112 ### macOS 113 114 macOS users should use the `.dfont` files provided in the release tarballs. 115 116 ### Windows 117 118 Windows users should use the `.otf` files provided in the release tarballs. 119 120 ## Usage 121 122 ### *BSD and Linux 123 124 Update the font path to include **Spleen**: 125 126 xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/spleen/ 127 128 Update **.Xdefaults** and add one of the following directives: 129 130 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=8:antialias=false 131 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=12:antialias=false 132 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=16:antialias=false 133 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=24:antialias=false 134 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=32:antialias=false 135 xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=64:antialias=false 136 137 Launch **xterm**. 138 139 Ubuntu has bitmap fonts support disabled by default, instructions to enable 140 it are available [here][17]. 141 142 ### Linux console 143 144 Release tarballs provide PSF files for each size, `setfont` can be used 145 to load and set the desired font. 146 147 ### NetBSD console 148 149 NetBSD has .fnt files for each size which can be loaded using wsfontload(8). 150 151 For example, to load Spleen 16x32: 152 153 wsfontload -N spleen-16x32 -w 16 -h 32 /usr/share/wscons/fonts/spleen-16x32.fnt 154 wsconsctl -dw font=spleen-16x32 155 156 ### FreeBSD console 157 158 The FreeBSD package contains .fnt files which can be loaded using 159 vidcontrol(1). 160 161 For example, to load Spleen 16x32: 162 163 vidcontrol -f /usr/local/share/fonts/spleen/spleen-16x32.fnt 164 165 ### OpenType versions 166 167 Spleen release tarballs now contains OTF versions generated automatically 168 from the BDF files, using [bdf2sfd][18]. Each font has a different name, 169 allowing them to be installed alongside. 170 171 They should be used in the exact size specified below, with anti-aliasing 172 disabled. 173 174 - Spleen 6x12: 9 Pt (12 pixels) 175 - Spleen 8x16: 12 Pt (16 pixels) 176 - Spleen 12x24: 18 Pt (24 pixels) 177 - Spleen 16x32: 24 Pt (32 pixels) 178 - Spleen 32x64: 48 Pt (64 pixels) 179 180 ## License 181 182 Spleen is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. See `LICENSE` file for 183 details. 184 185 ## Author 186 187 Spleen is developed by Frederic Cambus. 188 189 - Site: https://www.cambus.net 190 191 ## Resources 192 193 GitHub: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen 194 195 196 ## Trivia 197 198 - Spleen is the default font for OpenBSD consoles since January 2019 199 - Spleen was imported in the NetBSD src tree in March 2019 200 - Spleen 12x24 is used in the Haiku [kernel debugger][19] (on high resolution 201 displays) since May 2021 202 203 [1]: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/spleen-hello.png 204 [2]: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/spleen-etranger.png 205 [3]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-5x8.png 206 [4]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-6x12.png 207 [5]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-8x16.png 208 [6]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-12x24.png 209 [7]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-16x32.png 210 [8]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-32x64.png 211 [9]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/fonts/spleen/ 212 [10]: https://pkgsrc.se/fonts/spleen 213 [11]: https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/spleen/ 214 [12]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bdf-spleen/ 215 [13]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/font-spleen 216 [14]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/data/fonts/spleen 217 [15]: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=spleen 218 [16]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=spleen 219 [17]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Enabling_Bitmapped_Fonts 220 [18]: https://github.com/fcambus/bdf2sfd 221 [19]: https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=29a109bd6c01ce71bb61177ee9ff0417e74c1e18