New (Large) Console Fonts for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD

UW ttyp0 is a family of monospaced bitmap fonts. It covers most of the Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, Greek, Armenian, Georgian (only Mkhedruli), Hebrew (without cantillation marks), Tifinagh, Thai, Braille, most of IPA (but no UPA), standard punctuation, common symbols, some mathematics, line graphics a few dingbats, and Powerline delimiter symbols (about 3800 Unicode characters).

The UW ttyp0 fonts are available in bdf, pcf, and otb format for X11, and as console fonts for Linux, FreeBSD (vt and syscons), NetBSD, and OpenBSD. In addition to Unicode (ISO 10646-1), UW ttyp0 supports more than 50 8-bit encodings (code pages).

UW ttyp0 comes in eleven sizes (6x11, 6x12, 7x13, 7x14, 8x15, 8x16, 9x17, 9x18, 11x22, 14x30, 18x40). In all of the sizes there are regular and bold versions; for 8x15/16, 9x17/18, 14x30, and 18x40 there is also an italic. Two more sizes (28x60 and 36x80) can be generated by naive scaling of the 14x30 and 18x40 fonts during the installation process. (These fonts are intended only for high resolution displays. At low resolutions, they are noticably blocky.)

For many characters, several stylistic variants are provided (e.g., regular, dotted, or slashed zero, raised or centered tilde and asterisk, Russian, Serbian, or Bulgarian Cyrillic characters), that can be selected at installation time.

Download UW ttyp0 Version 2.1 (gzipped tar file).

Some font samples.

Stylistic variants.

Change log.

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Uwe Waldmann <[email protected]>,

2025-09-14

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