NAME
loadfont - load a font into the video card
SYNOPSIS
loadfont fontfile
EXAMPLES
loadfont iso1.fnt # Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font
DESCRIPTION
Loadfont loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or
VGA). The font character size has to be 8x16 pixels and the
font file must contain 256 characters for a total size of 4
kilobytes.
Loadfont together with loadkeys allow the console and key-
board to be customized to national conventions.
If it exists, the file /etc/font is loaded as a custom font
by /usr/etc/rc at boot time.
SEE ALSO
console(4).