Spleen started as a personal challenge. Patrick Wildt (patrick@) recently imported ssdfb(4), a driver for small OLED displays in OpenBSD and needed a 5x8 font to be able to squeeze more columns and rows on those devices. As someone spending most of his time in a terminal, I have been thinking about drawing my own font for a while, and this was the perfect opportunity. To be able to test character spacing and alignment, I started to use the font in xterm, then a zoomed version, and one thing leading to another, I started creating a 8x16 version, and then bigger versions based on it. Spleen is now available in 5 sizes: 5x8, 8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 32x64. Fonts are provided in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF), and in the .dfont format for Macintosh users. All sizes contain all ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters, except for the 5x8 version which only contains printable ASCII characters.

Features

  • Spleen is a monospaced bitmap font available in 6 sizes
  • Documentation available
  • Examples available
  • Each size is provided in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF)
  • All font sizes contain all ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters
  • As of Spleen 1.8.0, there is now a 6x12 version containing the same Unicode blocks

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Assembly

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2024-09-09