PC Screen Font

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|extensions={{ext|psf}}, {{ext|psfu}}
 
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|magic=[https://github.com/file/file/blob/master/magic/Magdir/linux#L60 36 04] (version 1)<br />[https://github.com/file/file/blob/master/magic/Magdir/linux#L60 72 b5 4a 86 00 00] (version 2)
 
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== Specifications ==
 
== Specifications ==
* http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html
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* https://aeb.win.tue.nl/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html
  
 
== Software ==
 
== Software ==
* [http://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ PSF Tools]
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* [https://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ PSF Tools]
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* {{Deark}}
  
 
== Sample files ==
 
== Sample files ==
 
* [https://packages.debian.org/stable/console-setup-linux console-setup-linux package] → console-setup-linux_*.deb → /usr/share/consolefonts/*.psf.gz
 
* [https://packages.debian.org/stable/console-setup-linux console-setup-linux package] → console-setup-linux_*.deb → /usr/share/consolefonts/*.psf.gz
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* {{DexvertSamples|font/pcScreenFont}}
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* [https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?mode=deep&extension=psf&format=pcScreenFont Search results of files with PSF extension and has format pcScreenFont - Discmaster.textfiles.com]
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
* [[Wikipedia: PC Screen Font]]
 
* [[Wikipedia: PC Screen Font]]

Latest revision as of 20:33, 24 August 2025

File Format
Name PC Screen Font
Ontology
Extension(s) .psf, .psfu
Magic Bytes 36 04 (version 1)
72 b5 4a 86 00 00 (version 2)
Released ~1989

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.

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[edit] Identification

Files begin with bytes 0x36 0x04 (version 1) or 0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86 (version 2). The former may be a reference to vfont format, the magic number of which is 0436 when converted to octal.

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