d.font(1)

NAME
d.font - Selects the font in which text will be displayed on the user’s 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
d.font allows the user to select use of a specific text font for display of text on the graphics monitor. If the user does not specify a font when using other GRASS programs that display text, the font type romans is used by default.

The user can run this program either non-interactively or interactively. If the user specifies a font type name on the command line the program will run non-interactively. Alternately, the user can simply type d.font on the command line; in this case, the program will prompt the user for a display text font type.

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.

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: Monday Jul 13 00:50:40 2026

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