I already posted this on list, but no luck. I believe this is some sort of bug because behaviour with systemd is different than with initscripts, rendering vconsole.conf unusable. Here's the story.

I'm installing Arch on new machine and decided to give systemd a shot. First I made full install using normal method and later added init to kernel line. I configured my fonts in /etc/vconsole.conf and it worked before switch to systemd. When using systemd, the system starts, letters start to flow, and in log I see:

> Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25

then, the fonts switch to desired for a moment. I.e. systemd-vconsole-setup.service starts and finishes - http://pastie.org/private/phhozort7vuasmeo1yw4a (systemctl status) and http://pastie.org/private/b67hafbx5tmxo3qfvt64ta (systemctl show). Unfortunately, then the console changes resolution, in log I see:

> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 180x56

And from now on, I have default fonts, without some glyphs I use (from ISO-8859-2). If I call /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup by hand, fonts switch and are correctly displayed, but only on "current" tty. Maybe somehow systemd-vconsole-setup.service is called too early? I haven't made too much systemd specific configuration, but I used "new style config" and enabled some services like network, sshd and ntpd.

I believe this is same/very similar issue as someone at OpenSuse is seeing with Cyrillic fonts - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744108