PC Screen Font

File Format
Name	PC Screen Font
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Fonts PC Screen Font
Extension(s)	.psf
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.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 0x36 0x04 (version 1) or 0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86 (version 2).

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

Links

• Wikipedia: PC Screen Font