Fixedsys

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Fixedsys is a family of raster monospaced fonts. The name means fixed system, because its glyphs are monospaced, or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike fully monospaced fonts such as Courier). It is the oldest font in Microsoft Windows, and was the system font in Windows 1.0 and 2.0, where it was simply named System. For Windows 3.x, the system font was changed to a proportional sans-serif font named System, but Fixedsys remained the default font in Notepad. The Fixedsys fonts family contains fonts encoded in several Windows code pages, 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 visually similar characters that are shared between the code pages. Though Fixedsys is a sans-serif font, it is vaguely similar...

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