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Recreating old fonts in modern browsers is a hard problem https://web.archive.org/web/20230603234837/https://vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers https

• akx 2y ago
  Sure, but I refuse to call this a faithful recreation of the aesthetic until the fonts look correct. :D On a related note, I did start working on some tools to work with legacy .FONs for this exact purpose earlier this year, but the project is iceboxed for now...
  • sbarre 2y ago
    Sounds like it was a hard problem!
    • akx 2y ago
      Mostly figuring out the details of the old formats enough to be able to render them without having an actual Windows rasterizer... https://github.com/akx/winfont/tree/dev https://github.com/akx/winfont/tree/dev is half of it, the web `<canvas>` frontend is currently still private :)