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diff --git a/fonts/README b/fonts/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..389bd86 --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +`Lat15-VGA16-braille.psf` is a Linux console font based on `Lat15-VGA16.psf` +with additional braille and graphic block characters suitable to run gotop +on the Linux console without a graphic environment. To use the braille font, +just run `setfont Lat15-VGA16-braille.psf`. + +To rebase the braille and graphic block characters on a different 16x8 +psf font, use the psf2txt and txt2psf from psftools[1]. In this case, make +sure the `Length:` entry in the file header is set to 512. + +The original `Lat15-VGA16.psf` font file was obtained from the Ubuntu 18.04 +console-setup-linux package[2]. Console fonts are public domain by nature[3]. + + +[1] https://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ +[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/console-setup-linux/1.178ubuntu2.7 +[3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/console-setup/+copyright |