Atari800 Font

Overview

Atari800 is a very small 4x8 pixel monospaced bitmap font originally designed for an Atari 800 terminal emulator.

The original font has been converted to ISO 10646-1/Unicode and expanded to include full coverage of the Box Drawing and Block Elements Unicode blocks. Partial coverage of the Geometric Shapes Unicode block is also included.

Current glyph count: 392

Installation

1. If you would prefer a PCF format font, run make.
2. Copy or symlink the font to your ~/.fonts directory: cp atari800-normal.bdf ~/.fonts
3. Run fc-cache -fv to update your font cache.

or

1. If you prefer OTF format font, run make sfd; make otf
2. cp *.otf /usr/share/fonts/opentype/

or on Linux or macOS

1. install https://github.com/alexmyczko/fnt
2. fnt update; fnt install atarismall

Use

Check if the font really is installed fc-list |grep -i atari

Run xterm with Atari 800 xterm -fa '"Atari800":style=Medium' -fs 4

Development

You edit the bdf using https://github.com/kreativekorp/bitsnpicas and send patches.

Credits

Atari800 is based on the work of Thomas A. Fine. Thomas' original font can be found at Tom's X11 Fonts.