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> Though I don't think the font is correct. As much as I love the authenticity the site would probably be a lot less readable/usable if it exactly simulated th
by Lammy 6y ago
> Though I don't think the font is correct.
As much as I love the authenticity the site would probably be a lot less readable/usable if it exactly simulated the rendering of the original bitmap MS Sans Serif. Old bitmap font glyphs were manually drawn per-size and were generally expected to be viewed on a CRT where the inherent characteristics of the display gave a kind of ClearType-esque blurring that would be expected by font designers.
MS Sans Serif was replaced with an OpenType version of itself (now known as "Microsoft Sans Serif") in Win2k but then you have the copyright issue of redistributing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Sans_Serif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Sans_Serif
- Rendello 6y agoFor what it's worth it does match the original bitmap exactly if anti-aliasing is off and the font size is 11px. I found this out just a week or so back; I just did a similar project emulating Windows 9x.
- tomc1985 6y agoWin2000 used Tahoma everywhere didn't it? It woudn't quite be Windows 98 but I feel like this site is a mishmash of Win9x anyway
- Lammy 6y agoYes it used Tahoma as default UI font, but it also came with an outline version of the previous default UI font.