PC Screen Font
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| − | Files begin with bytes {{magic|0x36 0x04}} (version 1) or {{magic|0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86}} (version 2). | + | Files begin with bytes {{magic|0x36 0x04}} (version 1) or {{magic|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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Revision as of 19:41, 20 January 2021
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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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.
Specifications
Software
Sample files
- console-setup-linux package → console-setup-linux_*.deb → /usr/share/consolefonts/*.psf.gz
