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Port details
gallant Sun Microsystems Gallant font with >4500 Unicode glyphs
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Maintainer: schweikh@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-10 09:21:06
Last Update: 2025-09-10 09:19:02
Commit Hash: 19b51ce
License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant
Description:
This is the Gallant font, as used by the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation console, extended with glyphs for many Unicode blocks. It is a raster font with a 22x12 pixel character cell, descent 5 and ascent 17. This project currently provides more than 4500 glyphs. Major additions: * Greek * Cyrillic * International Phonetic Association Extensions * Extended Latin characters * Zapf Dingbats * Tons of arrows * Tons of mathematical symbols * Letter-like symbols and enclosed alphanumerics * Pixel-perfect box drawing * Currency symbols * More punctuation * Just enough Katakana to say KO N NI CHI HA * Powerline glyphs in the Private Use Area at U+e0a0
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/fonts/gallant/gallant.pcf.gz
  2. @fontsdir /usr/local/share/fonts/gallant
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/gallant-0.1/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/gallant-0.1/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/gallant-0.1/BSD2CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • gallant>0:x11-fonts/gallant
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/gallant/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11-fonts/gallant
  • pkg install gallant
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: gallant
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1757104793 SHA256 (NanoBillion-gallant-v0.1_GH0.tar.gz) = bb5477bb2b0c2e06b0242d1c6da17d957d78654fb4df9374dc49862b67b75c40 SIZE (NanoBillion-gallant-v0.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 2972029

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
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Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Runtime dependencies:
  1. fc-cache : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  2. mkfontscale : x11-fonts/mkfontscale
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
x11-fonts_gallant
USES:
fonts
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/NanoBillion/gallant/tar.gz/v0.1?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.1
10 Sep 2025 09:19:02
commit hash: 19b51ce8a00c3d42f34395246971fa60f80b51f1commit hash: 19b51ce8a00c3d42f34395246971fa60f80b51f1commit hash: 19b51ce8a00c3d42f34395246971fa60f80b51f1commit hash: 19b51ce8a00c3d42f34395246971fa60f80b51f1 files touched by this commit
Älven (alven) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Jens Schweikhardt
x11-fonts/gallant: [NEW PORT] 4.4BSD/Sun Microsystems Gallant font

This is the Gallant font, as used by the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation
console, extended with glyphs for many Unicode blocks. It is a raster
font with a 22x12 pixel character cell, descent 5 and ascent 17.

WWW:		https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant

PR:		289327
Reviewed by:	Yusuf Yaman <nxjoseph@protonmail.com>
Approved by:	yuri@ (Mentor)

Number of commits found: 1