Fonts - ArchWiki - Arch Linux
wiki.archlinux.org › title › FontFonts and font collections in the enabled repositories can be installed using pacman. Available fonts may be found by querying packages (e.g. for font or ttf). Creating a package. You should give pacman the ability to manage your fonts, which is done by creating an Arch package. These can also be shared with the community in the AUR.
Font configuration - ArchWiki - Arch Linux
wiki.archlinux.org › title › Font_configurationFrom ArchWiki. Fontconfig is a library designed to provide a list of available fonts to applications, and also for configuration for how fonts get rendered. The FreeType library renders the fonts, based on this configuration. The freetype2 font rendering packages on Arch Linux include the bytecode interpreter (BCI) enabled for better font rendering especially with an LCD monitor.
Linux console - ArchWiki - Arch Linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_consoleBy default, the virtual console uses the kernel built-in font with a CP437 character set, but this can be easily changed.. The Linux console uses UTF-8 encoding by default, but because the standard VGA-compatible framebuffer is used, a console font is limited to either a standard 256, or 512 glyphs. If the font has more than 256 glyphs, the number of colours is reduced from 16 to 8.