Changing the default font (chfont command)

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To change the default font at system startup, use the chfont or smit command. A font palette is a file that the system uses to define and identify the fonts it has available.

Note: To run the chfont command, you must have root authority.

chfont command

See the following examples on how to use the chfont command:

To change the active font to the fifth font in the font palette, type the following:
```
chfont -a5
```

To change the font to an italic, roman, and bold face of the same size, type the following:

chfont -n /usr/lpp/fonts/It114.snf /usr/lpp/fonts/Bld14.snf  /usr/lpp/fonts/Rom14.snf

smit command

The chfont command can also be run using smit.

To select the active font, type the following:

smit chfont

To select the font palette, type the following:

smit chfontpl