Command: loadfont - load a font into the video card Syntax: loadfont fontfile Flags: (none) Example: loadfont alt-lat-2.f16 # Loads an alternate ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) 8x16 font 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 keyboard to be customized to national conventions. If it exists, the file /etc/font is loaded as a custom font by /etc/rc at boot time.