GRUB-MKFONT(1)

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version 2.12 · 14 versions
, in ubuntu noble

🎀 NAME 🎀

grub-mkfont — make GRUB font files 💖

(ok so this is from the User Commands manual, bestie, and it's about turning your cute lil' fonts into GRUB font files)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

grub-mkfont [OPTION...] [OPTIONS] FONT_FILES

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Convert common font file formats into PF2. That's it, that's the whole vibe — you hand it a normal font file, it hands you back a PF2, which is what GRUB actually wants. Periodt. 💅

  • -a, --force-autohint — force autohint. like, make it happen even if it wouldn't normally 🫶
  • -b, --bold — convert to bold font. thicc-ify it ✨
  • -c, --asce=NUM — set font ascent (the height above the baseline, if you were wondering 👀)
  • -d, --desc=NUM — set font descent (the bit that hangs below the baseline, yes it's a real term 😭)
  • -i, --index=NUM — select face index. for when your font file is a whole collection and you gotta pick one 💀
  • --no-bitmap — ignore bitmap strikes when loading. no bitmaps allowed, we're being picky 🙈
  • --no-hinting — disable hinting
  • -n, --name=NAME — set font family name
  • -o, --output=FILE — save output in FILE — required, no cap, you literally cannot skip this one 🔥
  • -r, --range=FROM-TO[,FROM-TO] — set font range. you can stack ranges with commas, slay 🎀
  • -s, --size=SIZE — set font size
  • -v, --verbose — print verbose messages. (note the period, it's part of the original energy 💜)
  • -?, --help — give this help list
  • --usage — give a short usage message
  • -V, --version — print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. ← read that twice bestie, it's the classic getopt rule and it applies here fr fr 🌸

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. (yes, that's the real address, go tell them, they wanna know 🫶)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The full documentation for grub-mkfont is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-mkfont programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info grub-mkfont

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk, that's where the full lore lives 📖✨

so yeah, that's the whole page 🧚 this one's from GRUB 2.12-1ubuntu7.3, dated March 2025 — go make some iconic fonts, bestie, ily, bye 💖🌈🍓

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