On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 04:35:41PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > Hello list, > > I'm still trying to find a terminal font (not an X font) to suit my > deteriorating sight. Every terminal font I've found includes either > a dot in the centre of the /zero/ character or a diagonal bar across > it. Either of these makes a zero resemble an eight: 0, 8. I often > need a magnifying glass to see which it is. I suppose it's meant to > distinguish a zero from a capital o: 0, O, but this can be handled > better in moderate to large font sizes such as I use, by sloping the > shoulders of the zero to resemble those used in the publishing trade.
Set... consolefont="solar24x32" ...in /etc/conf.d/consolefont It is Y-U-U-U-G-E, coming in at 80 columns by 33 rows on my 1920x1080 text console. And no dot in the centre. But you may have problems distinguishing zero from O and o. <G> -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
