splitfont(1)

splitfont1

Extract characters from an iso-type font.

Usage

splitfont fontfile <character range> ...

Overview

The command splitfont removes characters from a given font file; it removes all the specified characters from the named font file.

This works for Linux console fonts, without PSF headers, and containing just 256 characters.

The character range is of the form

17,23-30,

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.2–3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0–10
  4. 11–Arch

From kbd 2.10.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.