Thank u

Dave

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 11:36 AM Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> 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.
>
> I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much easier
> to
> Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font like it. Or is
> there a
> tool I can use to adjust the Terminus Font I use in my VTs? All the font
> editors I've seen are for GUI use.
>
> There was a half-suitable utility years ago, whose name I've forgotten,
> which
> might well be suitable if it could handle two-byte characters.
>
> Is there either a console font like what I've described, or a font editor
> that
> would allow me to make my own?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
>
>
>
>

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