F22 Self Contained Change: New Default Console Font

Jochen Schmitt Jochen at herr-schmitt.de
Wed Jan 7 17:29:27 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:10:58PM +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> = Proposed Self Contained: New Default Console Font =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewDefaultConsoleFont
> 
> Change owner(s): Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat.com>,  Mike FABIAN 
> <mfabian at fedoraproject.org> 
> 
> A new console font, eurlatgr, was recently added to kbd and it should be 
> better default console font for European based languages written in Latin or 
> Greek script. eurlatgr is based on latarcyrheb-sun16 so the typeface does not 
> change.
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> eurlatgr would bring these changes over the current default latarcyrheb-sun16:

Relating to thsi ChangeSet I will to point out, that we need a double sized console font in
addition to the single sized one. The issue is, that a single sized font is unreadable on a
Retina or 4K display.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt


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