{"id":171541,"date":"2025-12-07T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/171541\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:38:08","slug":"linux-6-19-adds-new-console-font-to-better-handle-modern-laptops-with-hidpi-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/171541\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 6.19 Adds New Console Font To Better Handle Modern Laptops With HiDPI Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device “FBDEV” subsystem are just a set of “fixes” for FBDEV drivers and code clean-ups. But it does also include a new console font option for better supporting modern laptops with high density displays.<\/p>\n

The FBDEV fixes pull request<\/a> was already sent out today and subsequently merged by Linus Torvalds in short order. The only notable highlight is the introduction of a Terminus 10×18 console font option.
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\"Terminus<\/p>\n

Neilay Kharwadkar who contributed the Terminus 10×18 font for the kernel console noted the reasoning around modern HiDPI displays and the existing console font options being inadequate. From the commit<\/a> adding Terminus 10×18:
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“Add a compile-in option for Terminus 10×18 bitmap console font to improve readability on modern laptop displays. <\/p>\n

On modern 13-16 inch laptop displays with high pixel density, common scaled resolutions like 1280×800 and 1440×900 are widely used. \n<\/p>\n

At these resolutions, VGA 8×16 is too small and difficult to read for extended periods, while Terminus 16×32 is too large, providing only 25-28 rows. The existing 10×18 font has poor readability. \n<\/p>\n

Terminus 10×18 provides improved readability with its clean, fixed-width design while maintaining practical row counts (44-50 rows). \n<\/p>\n

A comfortable and readable built-in font for early boot messages, kernel panics or whenever userspace is unavailable. \n<\/p>\n

The font was converted from standard Terminus ter-i18b.psf using psftools and formatted to match kernel font conventions. \n<\/p>\n

This patch is non-intrusive, no options are enabled by default so most users won’t notice a thing.”<\/p>\n

This Terminus 10×16 console font can be enabled via the Linux kernel Kconfig’s FONT_TER10x18 option. A nice alternative to the existing Terminus 16×32 console option or the default 8×16 console font. Of the other font choices are also no 10×16 pixel options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device “FBDEV” subsystem are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":{"0":"post-171541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-linux-benchmarking","12":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","13":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","14":"tag-linux-how-to","15":"tag-linux-performance","16":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","17":"tag-open-source-graphics","18":"tag-phoronix","19":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","22":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}