A collection of monospaced, bitmap fonts in BDF format that origin from IBMtext mode and system fonts. They include extended latin, greek, cyrillic andhebrew scripts and several extra characters, for a total of 782 glyphs each.The fonts are in BDF 2.1 format and fully compatible with applications thatmake use of either Xft or XLFD.

In order to install the fonts with default settings, run (if necessary asroot):

The default behaviour of configure is to look for sources in ./bdf, compilefonts in ./pcf, and install the fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts/misc.configure automatically creates objdir if it does not exist.

The Bitmap Font Generator is a free program to generate bitmap fonts from true type fonts. The bitmaps are generated in such a way as to leave as little unused space as possible. The position of the characters in the bitmap is not regular so you'll need the generated font. Bitmap font generator This program will allow you to generate bitmap fonts from TrueType fonts. The application generates both image files and character descriptions that can be read by a game for easy rendering of fonts. To generate bitmap font, you can use the Bitmap Font Generatorwhich will produce a.fntfile and an image containing your choosing characters. You can find a tutorial on how to use the Bitmap Font Generator here. Since we are processing the bitmap font with JS, you need to convert the format of the.fntfile to JSON. And then convert it to JSON.

AUR Package

If you use Arch Linux, there is an AUR package for these fonts namedibm-fonts. You may use yourfavourite AUR helper or proceed with manual installation as describedhere.

You can pass several command line arguments to configure:

If srcdir is set and is a relative path, its parent directory will be$(prefix)/src. If objdir is set and is a relative path, its parentdirectory will be $(prefix)/obj. If installdir is set and is a relativepath, its parent directory will be $(prefix)/share/fonts. If you don't wantthis behaviour simply use absolute paths instead of relative ones.

From the directory you cloned this repository into, run:

After installation or removal, it is important to update the font cache toreflect changes. For applications that use fontconfig, simply run:

Letting older applications like xfontsel detect the changes is morecomplicated. First, check that the installation directory (I will assume it's/usr/local/share/fonts/misc for the sake of the example) is in the X fontpath. You can verify that by running:

Disk utility dmg to usb. If it is not in the font path, you need to instruct X to read your fontdirectory by adding a FontPath entry under the Files section in/etc/X11/xorg.conf (if the file does not exists, create it):

After making sure the installation directory is in the font path, run:

You can check whether the font is detected by X by running either xfontsel orxlsfonts.

IBM BIOS 8x8

XLFD name: -ibm-bios-normal-r-normal--8-60-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: ib8x8u.bdf

IBM BIOS 16x8

XLFD Name: -ibm-bios-normal-r-expanded--8-60-96-96-c-160-iso10646-1
Filename: ib16x8u.bdf

IBM BIOS 16x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-bios-normal-r-normal--16-120-96-96-c-160-iso10646-1
Filename: ib16x16u.bdf

IBM BIOS 8x16

Bitmap Font Generator Github Bot

XLFD Name: -ibm-bios-normal-r-condensed--16-120-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: ib8x16u.bdf

IBM CGA 8x8

XLFD Name: -ibm-cga-normal-r-normal--8-60-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: ic8x8u.bdf

IBM CGA 16x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-cga-normal-r-normal--16-120-96-96-c-160-iso10646-1
Filename: ic16x16u.bdf

IBM CGA 8x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-cga-normal-r-condensed--16-120-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: ic8x16u.bdf

IBM CGA Light 8x8

XLFD Name: -ibm-cga-light-r-normal--8-60-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: icl8x8u.bdf

IBM CGA Light 16x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-cga-light-r-normal--16-120-96-96-c-160-iso10646-1
Filename: icl16x16u.bdf

IBM CGA Light 8x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-cga-light-r-condensed--16-120-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: icl8x16u.bdf

IBM EGA 8x14

XLFD Name: -ibm-ega-normal-r-normal--14-100-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: ie8x14u.bdf

IBM EGA 16x14

XLFD Name: -ibm-ega-normal-r-expanded--14-100-96-96-c-160-iso10646-1
Filename: ie16x14u.bdf

IBM EGA 9x14

XLFD Name: -ibm-ega-normal-r-normal--14-100-96-96-c-90-iso10646-1
Filename: ie9x14u.bdf

IBM EGA 18x14

XLFD Name: -ibm-ega-normal-r-expanded--14-100-96-96-c-180-iso10646-1
Filename: ie18x14u.bdf

IBM MDA 9x14

XLFD Name: -ibm-mda-normal-r-normal--14-100-96-96-c-90-iso10646-1
Filename: im9x14u.bdf

IBM VGA 8x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-vga-normal-r-normal--16-120-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1
Filename: iv8x16u.bdf

IBM VGA 16x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-vga-normal-r-expanded--16-120-96-96-c-160-iso10646-1
Filename: iv16x16u.bdf

IBM VGA 9x16

XLFD Name: -ibm-vga-normal-r-normal--16-120-96-96-c-90-iso10646-1
Filename: iv9x16u.bdf

IBM VGA 18x16

Font To Bitmap

XLFD Name: -ibm-vga-normal-r-expanded--16-120-96-96-c-180-iso10646-1
Filename: iv18x16u.bdf

VileR from The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Packfor his pixel-perfect reproductions of these old system fonts. I used hisPxPlus fonts as a base.