Debian/Ubuntu - Reconfigure Console Font

Install Necessary Package

If you want to make console (terminal) font bigger, try fonts-terminus.

apt update
apt install fonts-terminus -y

Reconfigure system console font

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Choose character encoding

 

Choose character set (latin, Thai, etc.)

Choose font family

Choose font size

 

 

Making change non-interactively

Edit/create /etc/default/console-setup file with the following content.

ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE="Terminus"
FONTSIZE="12x24"
VIDEOMODE=

Apply the change

setupcon

Rebuild initial ram disk

update-initramfs -u -k all