---
name: "cfe"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cfe"
version: "0.9-8"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cfe"
---

# cfe(1)

console font editor

## NAME

cfe - console font editor

## SYNOPSIS

**cfe** \[**-abhv**\] \[**-o** *N*\| **-o** \[*N1*\] **:** \[*N2*\]\] \[**-p**\|**-P**\] \[**-s** *H*\] *file1* \[*file2*\]

## DESCRIPTION

*cfe* is a console font editor which works well both on the console and the terminal. It includes such abilities as various glyph transforming, multi-level undo, and comparing glyphs of two fonts. *cfe* automatically supports loading of .psf and raw binary fonts. Other types of fonts can be opened using the proper options.

## OPTIONS

- **-a**

  Use ASCII characters (+-\|) for line drawing.

- **-b**

  Force black and white display.

- **-h**

  Display the help screen and quit.

- **-o***N*

  Set font offset to position *N*. Default value is 0.

- **-p**

  Create .psf font *file1* with 256 characters.

- **-P**

  Create .psf font *file1* with 512 characters.

- **-o***N1***:***N2*

  Set different offsets for *file1* and *file2*. Either *N1* or *N2* may be omitted.

- **-s***H*

  Set font size to 8x*H*. Default size is 16.

- **-v**

  Display the version number of *cfe* then quit.

## BUGS

If you want to report a problem with the program, please send mail to the author.

## AUTHOR

Eugene Osintsev \<gene@linuxave.net\>

## SEE ALSO

[**setfont**(8)](/setfont/8.md), [**psfaddtable**(1)](/psfaddtable/1.md)