.CD "loadfont \(en load a font into the video card"
.SX "loadfont \fIfontfile"
.FL "\fR(none)"
.EY "loadfont alt-lat-2.f16" "Loads an alternate ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) 8x16 font"
.PP
.I Loadfont
loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA).  The font character
size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must contain 256 characters for
a total size of 4 kilobytes.
.PP
.I Loadfont
together with
.I loadkeys
allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.
.PP
If it exists, the file
.I /etc/font
is loaded as a custom font by
.I /etc/rc
at boot time.