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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS Windows/286 system fonts
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Date: 21 Oct 89 09:40:30 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Oct 20 20:36:00 1989


I don't know of any system fonts anywhere, but I grew equally sick of the 
standard system font and developed my own. There's not much leeway you have,
since Windows assumes a fixed pitch font. The font I developed is sort of
proportional. The M and W are slightly wider, so that you can read them 
even when MS DOS exec prints them in bold for the directories, and I made
the I and L shorter in hopes of making up for the diff. Apart from that,
the other characters are basically the same, but I like the results on   
800x600 super vga.

Some one told me that the results are pretty ugly on 640x480 vga, so take
it at your own risk. I will be happy to uuencode and mail the font to
anyone who is interested, as soon as I figure out how to use uuencode
properly.

Milan
mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
.