# Fonts on 9front

By default 9front uses a font called VGA but its too small for my eyes.

The fonts I use (dejavu) look like this[![an image showing the fonts][1]][1] and are attached below:

[proportional font](https://files.pmikkelsen.com/djv.tar)

[monospace font](https://files.pmikkelsen.com/djvmono.tar)

They can be recreated by having them installed on linux and doing the following from
linux with plan9port installed.

	fontsrv -m /tmp/fonts
	cp -r /tmp/fonts/DejaVuSomeThing/14a/ /tmp/djv

You can try a different font or font size if you want.

Then connect to 9front via drawterm and run:

	mkdir /lib/font/bit/djv
	dircp /mnt/term/tmp/djv /lib/font/bit/djv

Finally change your `lib/profile` to use `/lib/font/bit/djv/font` :)

Note that 9front includes truetypefs which allows you to use `.ttf` files
directly, but I find the results are better looking this way.

[1]: https://images.pmikkelsen.com/djvfonts.png