Portable Compiled Format

Portable Compiled Format (PCF) is a bitmap font format used by Xserver in its core font system, and has been used for decades. PCF fonts are usually installed, by default, on most Unix based operating systems, and are used in terminals such as xterm. PCF fonts replaced BDF due to a slight efficiency increase, however most applications have moved on to scalable fonts.^[1]

References

↑ Fonts in X11R7.5

Format for X11 pcf bitmap font files

Typography terminology

Page

Paragraph

Character

Typeface anatomy	Counter Diacritics Dingbat Glyph Initial Kerning Letter-spacing Ligature Subscript and superscript Swash Text figures Tittle

Capitalization	All caps CamelCase Letter case Petite caps Small caps

Vertical aspects	Ascender Baseline Cap height Descender Median Overshoot x-height

Classifications

Roman type	Antiqua (Old Style) Didone (Modern) Sans-serif Script Serif Slab serif Transitional Reverse-contrast

Blackletter type	Fraktur Rotunda Schwabacher Textualis

Gaelic type	Angular Uncial

Specialist	Record type

Category
Commons
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Portable Compiled Format

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