[Solved] "Clean" font for other distros

as mentioned in this thread, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69155 and a few others, the font called "Clean" can be installed from xorg-fonts-misc... but i want this font in debian based crunchbang as well as my arch and gentoo installs. though i have the font in gentoo and arch, i cannot seem to find a font file to copy to my debian.
where can i acquire this font to take with me to my other distros?
or does it simply not exist anywhere as a regular font file?
Last edited by Digit (2011-09-30 23:34:29)

thnx whitehorn, that was the first thing i tried, and i got the same. i too have proggyclean (and several other prog* fonts), but it's not the one i'm looking for.
thnx karol. xlsfonts seems handy. still cant seem to find "Clean" though.
thnx thisoldman. i'm not looking for "one of the clean fonts". i'm looking for "the font called "Clean"", of which, there's only one i'm aware of. from what i could tell, from putting clB6x10.pfc (+.gz) in my fonts directory, it's not the one.
the specific font i'm looking for, shows up in font selection lists, simply named as "Clean". it never changes size (8pt i think), is mono-spaced, and is always pixel perfect.
i've found http://dev-sham.blogspot.com/2011/02/using.html (after searching "font called clean"), but it didnt seem to work.
... i think i'll take this to a more relevent forum... i thought it'd be a simple case of someone telling me "you can get it from /usr/share/somewherelessobvious".

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