fnt 2 ttf

Thanks for the reply. But the linked thread is, like most threads on this theme, about the other way round: trying to make syscons(4) (or vt(4)) use a preferred .ttf. Plus, it seems, print/fontforge can't handle .fnt (see fontforge(1)).

But, at last, I found some information on *BSD's .fnt:
Which font file format is useful depends on the application being used. FreeBSD by itself uses no fonts. Application programs and/or drivers may make use of the font files.
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The .fnt suffix is used quite frequently. I suspect that whenever someone wanted to create a specialized font file for their application, more often than not they chose this suffix. Therefore, it is likely that files with this suffix are not all the same format; specifically, the .fnt files used by syscons under FreeBSD may not be the same format as a .fnt file one encounters in the MS-DOS®/Windows® environment. I have not made any attempt at using other .fnt files other than those provided with FreeBSD.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/fonts/article.html
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I got an answer at stackexchange:
I think it's going to be tricky to find something to convert a `.fnt` file into TrueType.
The former is a raster font and the latter is vector based.
In addition, I believe the console font files used by FreeBSD and OpenBSD are not the same format as used by Windows, making finding a converter even trickier.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/217000/114664
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