d.font(1)

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version 8.4.2 · 8 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ d.font — the font picker era ✨

okay bestie, this is d.font from the GRASS GIS User's Manual, and it's literally the module that picks which font your text shows up in on your graphics monitor 💅

KEYWORDS: display, settings

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

d.font
d.font --help
d.font [-lv]  [font=string]   [path=name]   [charset=string]   [--help]
[--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🎀 Flags 🎀

  • -l — List fonts
  • -v — List fonts verbosely
  • --help — Print usage summary
  • --verbose — Verbose module output
  • --quiet — Quiet module output
  • --ui — Force launching GUI dialog

🦋 Parameters 🦋

  • font=string — Choose new current font. Default: romans
  • path=name — Path to Freetype-compatible font including file name
  • charset=string — Character encoding. Default: UTF-8

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so d.font lets you pick which specific text font gets used for showing text on the graphics monitor. and here's the tea: if you don't specify a font when you're using other GRASS programs that display text, the font type romans is what you get by default. no cap. 🫶

you can run this program either non-interactively or interactively, your choice bestie. if you specify a font type name on the command line, the program runs non-interactively. alternately, you can just type d.font on the command line and it'll prompt you for a display text font type. iconic behaviour honestly.

Parameter:

  • font=name — Name of a font type, from among the font types italicized below.
    • Default: romans
    • Options: (italized)
    • cyrilc — Cyrillic
    • gothgbt — Gothic Great Britain triplex
    • gothgrt — Gothic German triplex
    • gothitt — Gothic Italian triplex
    • greekc — Greek complex
    • greekcs — Greek complex script
    • greekp — Greek plain
    • greeks — Greek simplex
    • italicc — Italian complex
    • italiccs — Italian complex small
    • italict — Italian triplex
    • romanc — Roman complex
    • romancs — Roman complex small
    • romand — Roman duplex
    • romanp — Roman plain
    • romans — Roman simplex
    • romant — Roman triplex
    • scriptc — Script complex
    • scripts — Script simplex

🧚 NOTES 🧚

the font type romans is the fastest font type to display to the graphics monitor. speed queen behavior fr fr ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • d.text
  • d.title

👑 AUTHOR 👑

James Westervelt, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

d.font uses the public domain version of the Hershey Fonts created by Dr. A.V. Hershey while working at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.

🌈 SOURCE CODE 🌈

Available at: d.font source code (history)

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:40:34 2026

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