So, I'm working on a project where I use a custom font to render all my graphics, but I know that the terminals set the font differently, and that the python console has no control over it. My thought was to use a standalone terminal with my program, but I'm having a hard time finding a portable linux terminal, and it needs to support TTF fonts.

Any suggestions?

xterm by default doesn't support TTF fonts. It would have to be compiled supporting them.

I found one called Sakura, which may work. Looking into it now.

That is a good suggestion. I found that fbterm, a particular framebuffer terminal, supports ttf fonts. I'll keep that for a non-X.org version. (Something else I was after )

Oh, and more good news. Apparently, even though xterm's "default" option is no-ttf, most distributions compile it in anyway, including Arch. I just had apparently been using the wrong command line switch. -fa works with any ttf font (including local fonts), whereas -fn only works with certain system fonts.