[comp.sys.ibm.pc] MS Windows/286 system fonts

elrond@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Brad Hlista) (10/20/89)

Does anyone have any nice MS Windows system fonts?  I am getting tired of
looking at the standard system font.  If anyone has something, please let
me know about it.  Also I would be interested in what I would need to do
to make a system font. 
Is there an ftp site that has a number of system fonts... by system
fonts I don't mean fonts that write.exe and paint.exe use, but fonts that
the windows and dialog boxes use.
Thanks.
	Brad
	elrond@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu

celt@portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Minakami) (10/21/89)

In article <558@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> elrond@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Brad Hlista) writes:
>Is there an ftp site that has a number of system fonts... by system
>fonts I don't mean fonts that write.exe and paint.exe use, but fonts that
>the windows and dialog boxes use.


I'm interested in ftp sites that have any windows fonts, especially any
with the math symbols (for-all, there-exists, and, or, etc.).

Michael Minakami

mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/21/89)

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
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