# Ubuntu console-setup for setting console font

By default, on a Surface laptop running Ubuntu Sway Remix, the console font is waaay too small for my aging eyes, so I set off to learn how to change it.

```
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
```

- UTF-8
- Guess optimal character set
- Do not change the boot/kernel font

Results in the following /etc/default/console-setup contents:

```
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"

CHARMAP="UTF-8"

CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE=""
FONTSIZE=""

VIDEOMODE=
```

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