Grub 2 customizer by Daniel Richter

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This is a gui configuration which eases the job.

Here the ppa for Ubuntu (I have used it three times I mean in 3 machines, it worked perfectly 2 times, and failed on one after a new kernel was installed, that must depend on the GPU resource I suppose).
https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer

Here are the sources for other distributions
grub-customizer_3.0.2.tar.gz

I had found configuring the fonts was not really a success, but I had managed to get something nice looking anyhow.

Here is a howto:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1664134

one with more images:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43471/how-to-configure-the-linux-grub2-boot-…

I had done a mistake, but I don't remember what it was now. Anyhow it triggered an error message and this helped me find out what the problem was, by searching the web.