TKW-Font

Tiny KakWa Font: a really small 7 pixels monospaced bitmap font.

License

TKW-Font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

The license is available with a FAQ at scripts.sil.org.

Generate font files & Installation

Prerequisites

MacOS

brew install fontforge font-util

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install fontforge xfonts-utils

Targets

Build Targets

• all-fonts - Generate all formats PCF.GZ, PCF, and OTB formats (default).
• pcf - Generate PCF
• pcf.gz - Generate PCF.GZ
• otb - Generate OpenType Bitmap (OTB).

Utility Targets

• clean - Removes generated font files.

Installation

Installation Targets

• index - Creates an X11 font index in the font directory.
• rehash - Refreshes the X11 and fontconfig font cache.
• install-fonts - Install only the fonts
• install-conf - Install only the fc configuration

User Installation (Non-root)

As User:

make install INSTALL_USER=true -j

This installs fonts to ~/.fonts/ and the config to ~/.fonts.conf.d/. It also refresh fc-cache and X11 font cache.

System-wide Installation

As Root:

make install -j

This installs fonts to:

• otb - /usr/share/fonts/opentype/tkw-font/
• pcf.gz - /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/

And the config to /etc/fonts/conf.d/.

To tweak this install, use the usual variables (PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR, DESTDIR) or manually copy the fonts in the appropriate directories of your system.

Fontconfig & X11 indexation

You can test the availability of the font with the following commands:

X11:

# Check font path:
xset q

# Optionally add your ~/.fonts to X font path
xset +fp ~/.fonts/

# Check presence in X11
xlsfonts | grep tkw

Fontconfig:

# Check fontconfig font path:
fc-cache -v | grep -v '^/'

# Check Presence in Wayland/fontconfig
fc-list | grep tkw

Trying tkw-font

Here is a quick way to try tkw-font:

# With Xterm
xterm -bg black -fg white -fn -tkw-tkw-r-normal--7-70-72-72-c-40-iso8859-1 -xrm "XTerm.vt100.allowBoldFonts: false"

# With foot
foot --font tkw:size=5