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# Spleen
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Spleen is a monospaced bitmap font available in 6 sizes:
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- 5x8
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- 6x12
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- 8x16
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- 12x24
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- 16x32
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- 32x64
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Each size is provided in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF), and
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release tarballs contain the fonts in the following formats: `PCF`, `PSF`
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(for the Linux console), `OTB`, `OTF`, `.dfont` for macOS users, and `FON`
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for Windows users.
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All font sizes contain all ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters (Basic Latin and Latin-1
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Supplement Unicode block), Latin Extended-A characters, as well as Box Drawing,
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Block Elements, and Braille Patterns Unicode blocks, except for the 5x8 and the
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6x12 versions.
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Due to character size constraints, the 5x8 version only contains printable
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ASCII characters, the Braille Patterns Unicode block, and light Box Drawing
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characters. Please also note that there is no OpenType version for this size.
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As of Spleen 1.8.0, there is now a 6x12 version containing the same Unicode
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blocks as the 5x8 version and the Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block.
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Spleen also has support for Powerline symbols out of the box.
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The font name is a reference to Baudelaire.
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## Screenshots
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The following screenshots show Spleen 16x32 displaying code and prose.
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![Spleen - Hello][1]
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![Spleen - L'etranger][2]
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ASCII characters for all sizes:
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Spleen 5x8:
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![Spleen - ASCII characters - 5x8][3]
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Spleen 6x12:
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![Spleen - ASCII characters - 6x12][4]
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Spleen 8x16:
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![Spleen - ASCII characters - 8x16][5]
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Spleen 12x24:
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![Spleen - ASCII characters - 12x24][6]
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Spleen 16x32:
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![Spleen - ASCII characters - 16x32][7]
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Spleen 32x64:
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![Spleen - ASCII characters - 32x64][8]
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## XLFD font names
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-misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--8-80-72-72-c-50-iso10646-1
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-misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
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-misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1
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-misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-120-iso10646-1
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-misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--32-320-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1
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-misc-spleen-medium-r-normal--64-640-72-72-c-320-iso10646-1
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```
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## Packages
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Spleen packages are available for:
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- [OpenBSD][9]
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- [NetBSD][10]
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- [FreeBSD][11]
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- [Arch Linux][12]
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- [Void Linux][13]
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- [Nix][14]
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- [Debian][15]
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- [Ubuntu][16]
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- [MacPorts][17]
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## Manual installation
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### *BSD and Linux
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Clone the repository, convert the files to the Portable Compiled Format
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(PCF) using **bdftopcf** and run **mkfontdir** in the directory.
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Alternatively, release tarballs provide PCF files for each size.
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### macOS
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macOS users should use the `.dfont` files provided in the release tarballs.
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### Windows
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Windows users should use the `.fon` or `.otf` files provided in the release
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tarballs.
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## Usage
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### *BSD and Linux
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Update the font path to include **Spleen**:
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xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/spleen/
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Update **.Xdefaults** and add one of the following directives:
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xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=8:antialias=false
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xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=12:antialias=false
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xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=16:antialias=false
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xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=24:antialias=false
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xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=32:antialias=false
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xterm*faceName: spleen:pixelsize=64:antialias=false
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Launch **xterm**.
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Ubuntu has bitmap fonts support disabled by default, instructions to enable
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it are available [here][18].
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### Linux console
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Release tarballs provide PSF files for each size, `setfont` can be used
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to load and set the desired font.
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### NetBSD console
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NetBSD has .fnt files for each size which can be loaded using wsfontload(8).
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For example, to load Spleen 16x32:
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wsfontload -N spleen-16x32 -w 16 -h 32 /usr/share/wscons/fonts/spleen-16x32.fnt
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wsconsctl -dw font=spleen-16x32
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### FreeBSD console
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The FreeBSD package contains .fnt files which can be loaded using
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vidcontrol(1).
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For example, to load Spleen 16x32:
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vidcontrol -f /usr/local/share/fonts/spleen/spleen-16x32.fnt
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### OpenType versions
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Spleen release tarballs now contains OTF versions generated automatically
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from the BDF files, using [bdf2sfd][19]. Each font has a different name,
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allowing them to be installed alongside.
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They should be used in the exact size specified below, with anti-aliasing
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disabled.
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- Spleen 6x12: 9 Pt (12 pixels)
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- Spleen 8x16: 12 Pt (16 pixels)
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- Spleen 12x24: 18 Pt (24 pixels)
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- Spleen 16x32: 24 Pt (32 pixels)
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- Spleen 32x64: 48 Pt (64 pixels)
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## License
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Spleen is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. See `LICENSE` file for
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details.
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## Author
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Spleen is developed by Frederic Cambus.
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- Site: https://www.cambus.net
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## Resources
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- [Spleen - Monospaced bitmap fonts][20] (2018)
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- [New console font Spleen made default][21] (2019)
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- [NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen][22] (2021)
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GitHub: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
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## Trivia
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- Spleen is the default font for OpenBSD consoles since January 2019
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- Spleen was imported in the NetBSD src tree in March 2019
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- Spleen 12x24 was used in the Haiku [kernel debugger][23] (on high resolution
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displays) from May 2021 to June 2022
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- [msTERM][24], a Terminal program for MailStation devices uses Spleen 5x8
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- [FBInk][25], a library to print text & images to an eInk Linux framebuffer
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embeds Spleen 16x32
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[1]: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/spleen-hello.png
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[2]: https://www.cambus.net/content/2018/09/spleen-etranger.png
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[3]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-5x8.png
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[4]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-6x12.png
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[5]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-8x16.png
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[6]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-12x24.png
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[7]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-16x32.png
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[8]: https://www.cambus.net/files/spleen/spleen-32x64.png
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[9]: https://openports.pl/path/fonts/spleen
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[10]: https://pkgsrc.se/fonts/spleen
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[11]: https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/spleen/
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[12]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spleen-font/
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[13]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/font-spleen
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[14]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/data/fonts/spleen
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[15]: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=spleen
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[16]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=spleen
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[17]: https://ports.macports.org/port/font-spleen/
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[18]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Enabling_Bitmapped_Fonts
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[19]: https://github.com/fcambus/bdf2sfd
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[20]: https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
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[21]: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190110064857
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[22]: https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-ctwm-and-spleen/
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[23]: https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=29a109bd6c01ce71bb61177ee9ff0417e74c1e18
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[24]: https://github.com/jcs/msTERM
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[25]: https://github.com/NiLuJe/FBInk
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