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选题: 20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size

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+How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size
+======
+
+It is quite easy to change the text font type and its size if you have graphical desktop environment. How would you do that in an Ubuntu headless server that doesn’t have a graphical environment? No worries! This brief guide describes how to change Linux console font and size. This can be useful for those who don’t like the default font type/size or who prefer different fonts in general.
+
+### Change Linux Console Font Type And Size
+
+Just in case you don’t know yet, this is how a headless Ubuntu Linux server console looks like.
+
+![][2]
+
+Ubuntu Linux console
+
+As far as I know, we can [**list the installed fonts**][3], but there is no option to change the font type or its size from Linux console as we do in the Terminal emulators in GUI desktop.
+
+But that doesn’t mean that we can’t change it. We still can change the console fonts.
+
+If you’re using Debian, Ubuntu and other DEB-based systems, you can use **“console-setup”** configuration file for **setupcon** which is used to configure font and keyboard layout for the console. The standard location of the console-setup configuration file is **/etc/default/console- setup**.
+
+Now, run the following command to setup font for your Linux console.
+
+```
+$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
+```
+
+Choose the encoding to use on your Linux console. Just leave the default values, choose OK and hit ENTER to continue.
+
+![][4]
+
+Choose encoding to set on the console in Ubuntu
+
+Next choose the character set that should be supported by the console font from the list. By default, it was the the last option i.e. **Guess optimal character set** in my system. Just leave it as default and hit ENTER key.
+
+![][5]
+
+Choose character set in Ubuntu
+
+Next choose the font for your console and hit ENTER key. Here, I am choosing “TerminusBold”.
+
+![][6]
+
+Choose font for your Linux console
+
+In this step, we choose the desired font size for our Linux console.
+
+![][7]
+
+Choose font size for your Linux console
+
+After a few seconds, the selected font with size will applied for your Linux console.
+
+This is how console fonts looked like in my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server before changing the font type and size.
+
+![][8]
+
+This is after changing the font type and size.
+
+![][9]
+
+As you can see, the text size is much bigger, better and the font type is different that default one.
+
+You can also directly edit **/etc/default/console-setup** file and set the font type and size as you wish. As per the following example, my Linux console font type is “Terminus Bold” and font size is 32.
+
+```
+ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
+CHARMAP="UTF-8"
+CODESET="guess"
+FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
+FONTSIZE="16x32"
+```
+
+* * *
+
+**Suggested read:**
+
+  * [**How To Switch Between TTYs Without Using Function Keys In Linux**][10]
+
+
+
+* * *
+
+##### Display Console fonts
+
+To show your console font, simply type:
+
+```
+$ showconsolefont
+```
+
+This command will show a table of glyphs or letters of a font.
+
+![][11]
+
+Show console fonts
+
+If your Linux distribution does not have “console-setup”, you can get it from [**here**][12].
+
+On Linux distributions that uses **Systemd** , you can change the console font by editing **“/etc/vconsole.conf”** file.
+
+Here is an example configuration for German keyboard.
+
+```
+$ vi /etc/vconsole.conf
+
+KEYMAP=de-latin1
+FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
+```
+
+Hope you find this useful.
+
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+
+作者：[sk][a]
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+[a]: https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/
+[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
+[2]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ubuntu-Linux-console.png
+[3]: https://www.ostechnix.com/find-installed-fonts-commandline-linux/
+[4]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-encoding-to-set-on-the-console.png
+[5]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-character-set-in-Ubuntu.png
+[6]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-font-for-Linux-console.png
+[7]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-font-size-for-Linux-console.png
+[8]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Linux-console-tty-ubuntu-1.png
+[9]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ubuntu-Linux-TTY-console.png
+[10]: https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-switch-between-ttys-without-using-function-keys-in-linux/
+[11]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/show-console-fonts.png
+[12]: https://software.opensuse.org/package/console-setup