Where to get some console fonts?

[hop-frog]

All of the console fonts that came with my distro are too small and ugly and have funny spacing. Even midnight commander isn't able to display the line-graphics, instead it displays funny squares. Where can I get some good console fonts to be used in Konsole and xterm? What file types are used?

[Rui Alves]

Check if the following link can point you in the right direction:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x606.html

[hop-frog]

Nope. Maybe someone could tell me what font they are using?

[rid3r]

run
xfontsel &
choose a font/size/ecoding e.t.c, press "Select", then on the command line
xterm -fn (in this place middle-click you mouse, it will paste the font description from xfontsel)
Ex:
xterm -bg gray10 -fg green -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-4
To store this font permanently for xterm, make a search here on ".Xdefaults"

Does this answer your question?

P.S. as for formats, xterm uses whatever font you through at it (bitmaped *.pcf/ type1 *.afm/ true type *.ttf), if I am not mistaken. The are all stored in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.