- Fixedsys
"Fixedsys" is a family of raster
monospaced fonts for Windows. The name means "fixed system", although it is often pronounced "fixed size" because itsglyph s are monospace or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike other monospace fonts such as Courier). It is the oldest font in Windows, and was the system font in Windows 1.0 and 2.0. For Windows 3.x, the system font was changed to asans-serif font named System (used in menu bars, for instance). However, many applications usedMS Sans Serif (previously "Helv") for their windows and dialogs.Fixedsys fonts family contains fonts encoded in several
Windows code page s, with multiple resolutions of the font for each code page. Fixedsys fonts of different code pages have different point sizes.The glyphs for the upper areas of each one appear to be drawn separately, not taken from a single master set, as there are visible differences in the appearance of various characters that are shared between the code pages. The
Windows Vista version of Fixedsys is the first to have aeuro sign .Fixedsys attempts to emulate the ASCII system font shown during the boot process on most PCs, and all older ones.Verify source|date=July 2007
In
Windows 95 , 98, andWindows Me , "Fixedsys" is used as the default font forNotepad . This font was superseded byLucida Console in Notepad for later versions of Windows. InWindows 95 , this default font cannot be changed. Fixedsys of other code pages can be selected by specifying script settings in font selection dialogue, but not font of all code pages can be chosen.Due to its clean style and easy readability, it has enjoyed some popularity with the programming community, even giving rise to an imitation font - "
Fixedsys Excelsior " - which, based on the original Fixedsys typeface, also includes a large number ofUnicode script ranges.Fixedsys is used as the default font in the IRC chat program mIRC.
ee also
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Terminal (typeface)
*Fixedsys Excelsior External links
* [http://fixedsys.moviecorner.de/?l=1] Fixedsys in a
TrueType version underGNU General Public License
* [http://www.dafont.com/dos-like.font DOSLike font.]
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