# Square font, for Linux users?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/square-font-for-linux-users/259>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [February 24, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/square-font-for-linux-users/259 "2013-02-24T16:35:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tchey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Tchey](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tchey)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/square-font-for-linux-users/259/1 "2013-02-24T16:35:55Z")

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Ingame, my vehicle looks fine when going north and south, but looks squeezed when goind east and ouest, because the defaut font is not square. i don’t like it.

I know for Windows you can edit the FONTDATA file, but for Linux it does not work (no effect at all). So i played with the Edition/Preference/ on xTerminal, and i can see a lot of different fonts there, and it affects ingame fonts aswell. However, i didn’t find anything square.

Im’ on Lubuntu, eeePC 901.

Help ?

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**Author:** ![DrNoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@DrNoid](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DrNoid)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/square-font-for-linux-users/259/2 "2013-04-23T19:49:25Z")

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I also wanted a square font and couldn’t find any. So I apt-get installed fontforge and made my own 🙂  
It’s based on FreeMono and includes the latin1 and boxdrawing glyphs.  
I’ve scaled all box-drawing glyphs to be square, but left all others with the proper aspect-ratio.

Give it a try and let me know if I missed anything.

TrueType font:  
[http://pkedu.fbt.wur.nl/~hylke/tests/SquareBoxes.ttf](http://pkedu.fbt.wur.nl/~hylke/tests/SquareBoxes.ttf)

FontForge file:  
[http://pkedu.fbt.wur.nl/~hylke/tests/SquareBoxes3.sfd](http://pkedu.fbt.wur.nl/~hylke/tests/SquareBoxes3.sfd)