From the Arch Wiki:By default, the virtual console uses the kernel built-in font with a CP437 character set, but this can be easily changed.I actually prefer this font over the default 'Monospace' font. Where can I extract/obtain a copy of this font?
What is the default virtual terminal font?
tty;fonts
After reading Thomas Dickey's answer, I researched what Codepage 437 actually is, and it turns out that it's the font that's heavily associated with the DOS era.I came across a site called The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack, which has a collection of TTFs that are (near) perfect replications of the old fonts that everyone loves.I made a package for it called ttf-ibm-vga8 in the Arch User Repository. You can install on other distributions by moving it to the fonts folder.