Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Cindy Sue Causey]

On 1/7/20, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
> When I worked for the Navy, a recommendation was made to all employees to
> use Lucida-bright font.  I don't know that this one is even available but
> it got recommended due to its easy visibility.


Just chiming in with two fonts that are on my own radar. One is called
"fonts-opendyslexic" with a description that says, "Font designed to
increase readability for readers with dyslexia". I've never tried it.
I just keep it in conscious memory for moments just like this.. :)

The other is "ttf-anonymous-pro". This is one of the first packages I
install on every debootstrap I do these days. The description is
"fixed width sans serif font designed for coders". It was made for
people who spend a lot of time trying to sift through code on
[terminal] windows. I LOVE it..

Am mentioning both in case a test drive shows that they might help
someone out here..

Cindy :)
-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with birdseed *

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Jude DaShiell]

When I worked for the Navy, a recommendation was made to all employees to
use Lucida-bright font.  I don't know that this one is even available but
it got recommended due to its easy visibility.



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Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Samuel Thibault]

Alex ARNAUD, le mar. 07 janv. 2020 19:55:53 +0100, a ecrit:
> The main issue here is despite of the font selected at each startup the TTY
> doesn't load it.

I have never had this issue.

> You need to run manually "setup-con" blindly to make it
> working. [1]This seems to be this issue.

>From the bts log, it seems that issues come from outdated files from
upgrade systems. It would be good to investigate with Anton what exactly
remains from such upgrades. A freshly installed system doesn't have the
issue: dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, and the effect is both immediate
as well as after a reboot.

Samuel

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Alex ARNAUD]

The main issue here is despite of the font selected at each startup the 
TTY doesn't load it. You need to run manually "setup-con" blindly to 
make it working. This seems to be this issue 
.


Best regards.

Le 07/01/2020 à 16:52, Samuel Thibault a écrit :

Hello,

D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le mar. 07 janv. 2020 10:15:18 -0500, a ecrit:

Debian has a program to reconfigure console font, but it does not
include the larger size fonts such as Terminus ter-v32b.psf.gz

The name suggests a 32pixel font. As documented on
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Console_fonts , the
Debian-installer Terminus font has a 32x16 size option.


Could someone in this group get this to be included in Debian, and for
the dpkg-reconfigure console setup incorporate it as low vision font.

This is already available in dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, you just
need to choose the Terminus font, and you will be able to choose 16x32.


I don't have the skills, but I believe if someone does, and it might
be simple, fonts can be generated by this font into larger sizes.

This is discussed in bug #595696 (see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595696 ). It's a
matter of someone taking the time to do it.

Samuel

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Samuel Thibault]

Didier Spaier, le mar. 07 janv. 2020 17:31:53 +0100, a ecrit:
> Le 7/01/20 à 16:55, Alexandre ARNAUD a écrit :
> > Does the TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz should work too?
> 
> that's the same font, only the shipped glyphs differ, ter-v* having
> the most.

?
The terminus fonts shipped by Debian contain anything you would want.
The TerminusBold font also ship several codeset variants, to cope with
Linux' limited font loading support to 512 glyphs.

Samuel

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,

Le 7/01/20 à 16:55, Alexandre ARNAUD a écrit :
> Does the TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz should work too?

that's the same font, only the shipped glyphs differ, ter-v* having
the most. From the README:

2.4. Legend.

names   mappingscovered codepage(s)

ter-1*  iso01, iso15, cp1252ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15, Windows-1252
ter-2*  iso02, cp1250   ISO8859-2, Windows-1250
ter-7*  iso07, cp1253   ISO8859-7, Windows-1253
ter-9*  iso09, cp1254   ISO8859-9, Windows-1254
ter-c*  cp1251, iso05   Windows-1251, ISO8859-5
ter-d*  iso13, cp1257   ISO8859-13, Windows-1257
ter-g*  iso16   ISO8859-16
ter-i*  cp437   IBM-437
ter-k*  koi8r   KOI8-R
ter-m*  mik Bulgarian-MIK
ter-p*  pt154   Paratype-PT154
ter-u*  koi8u   KOI8-U

ter-v*  all mappings / code pages listed above and many others, about 110
language sets, 8 or 16 foreground colors depending on the kernel and
console driver

names   style

ter-*n  normal
ter-*b  bold
ter-*f  framebuffer-bold

PS and OT for Alex: David doesn't want to use fbterm on the console
because he prefers to keep speech, but IIRC you don't so you should
really try it if not already done.

For instance:
fbterm -s 4O
4O is the font size, you may make it as big as you want.

To get out of the frame buffer just press Ctrl+d

Happy New Year to all.

Best,

Didier

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Alexandre ARNAUD]

Does the TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz should work too?

Best regards.

Le 07/01/2020 à 16:15, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. a écrit :

Hello,

Debian has a program to reconfigure console font, but it does not
include the larger size fonts such as Terminus ter-v32b.psf.gz which
is the largest font size available, on modern distros is is readable
for people with less than 20/20 vision.

Could someone in this group get this to be included in Debian, and for
the dpkg-reconfigure console setup incorporate it as low vision font.

I don't have the skills, but I believe if someone does, and it might
be simple, fonts can be generated by this font into larger sizes.

These suggestions would be useful.

I got my font size larger, by copying the  ter-v32b.psf.gz console
font file from a computer running Arch Linux and setting it up in
Debian in /etc/rc.d/rc.font

rc.font containing this line:
setfont -v ter-v32b.psf.gz

The file rc.font was then made executable.  Rebooting gave me the
large font in console which previously was not even available in
Debian.

Debian has nearly everything, but it lacks this.

Regards,
David

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le mar. 07 janv. 2020 10:15:18 -0500, a ecrit:
> Debian has a program to reconfigure console font, but it does not
> include the larger size fonts such as Terminus ter-v32b.psf.gz

The name suggests a 32pixel font. As documented on
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Console_fonts , the
Debian-installer Terminus font has a 32x16 size option.

> Could someone in this group get this to be included in Debian, and for
> the dpkg-reconfigure console setup incorporate it as low vision font.

This is already available in dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, you just
need to choose the Terminus font, and you will be able to choose 16x32.

> I don't have the skills, but I believe if someone does, and it might
> be simple, fonts can be generated by this font into larger sizes.

This is discussed in bug #595696 (see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595696 ). It's a
matter of someone taking the time to do it.

Samuel

Console Font for Lower Vision People

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello,

Debian has a program to reconfigure console font, but it does not
include the larger size fonts such as Terminus ter-v32b.psf.gz which
is the largest font size available, on modern distros is is readable
for people with less than 20/20 vision.

Could someone in this group get this to be included in Debian, and for
the dpkg-reconfigure console setup incorporate it as low vision font.

I don't have the skills, but I believe if someone does, and it might
be simple, fonts can be generated by this font into larger sizes.

These suggestions would be useful.

I got my font size larger, by copying the  ter-v32b.psf.gz console
font file from a computer running Arch Linux and setting it up in
Debian in /etc/rc.d/rc.font

rc.font containing this line:
setfont -v ter-v32b.psf.gz

The file rc.font was then made executable.  Rebooting gave me the
large font in console which previously was not even available in
Debian.

Debian has nearly everything, but it lacks this.

Regards,
David