XNU is the operating system kernel of Mac OS X and later versions. This kernel contains a built-in 8x16 font for the system text console, visible when switching to "verbose mode" boot. The font source suggests it was made for ISO-8859-1, and to that end, the font only has 191 glyphs and lacks the basic expectations to have some cp437-like line drawing graphics.
Some font distribution web sites have a version of this known under names like "OS X Verbose Mode", "OS X Darwin", "OSXDarwin" or somesuch from author "Dies". However, this variant is terribly incomplete, with just 97 glyphs.
Resources
- Latest release from Consoleet: 20211008
DL: consoleet-darwin-20211008.tar.zst - Some Linux distributions may have a readily installable package (e.g. openSUSE's consoleet-darwin-fonts)
- Release archive
Screenshots
- Comparison between
Consoleet Darwin(which is the original font in a OTF file) andConsoleet Darwin Smooth(N2-vectorized, also in OTF) rendered with 24pt@96dpi.
