PC Screen Font

The PC Screen Font (PSF) format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts.

PSF has been extended to support Unicode. The .psfu file extension is sometimes used to indicate that the file includes Unicode mappings, though .psf files often have them as well.

Identification
Files begin with bytes (version 1) or  (version 2). The former may be a reference to vfont format, the magic number of which is 0436 when converted to octal.

Specifications

 * http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html

Software

 * PSF Tools

Sample files

 * console-setup-linux package → console-setup-linux_*.deb → /usr/share/consolefonts/*.psf.gz
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/font/pcScreenFont/

Links

 * PC Screen Font