loadfont(1)

NAME

     loadfont - load a font into the video card

SYNOPSIS

     loadfont fontfile

EXAMPLES

     loadfont iso1.fnt   # Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font

DESCRIPTION

     Loadfont loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA).  The  font
     character  size  has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must contain 256
     characters for a total size of 4 kilobytes.

     Loadfont together with loadkeys allow the  console  and  keyboard  to  be
     customized to national conventions.

     If it exists, the file /etc/font is loaded as a custom font by /etc/rc at
     boot time.

SEE ALSO

     console(4).