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Fixed Width Fonts
Some Windows' applications - like
program development environments - work effectively only with " monospaced", or
fixed width fonts. Other applications involving a lot of
text and numeric entry - data base systems, spreadsheets, etc., -
are much easier to use with
monospaced fonts.
Windows includes a limited set of both
vector (scalable) and raster
(bitmap)
monospaced fonts that it makes available to its applications.
The available vector TrueType
fonts might include:-
Facename Filenames
Courier New COUR*.TTF
Lucida Console LUCON.TTF
Andale Mono ANDALEMO.TTF
Letter Gothic MT LC*.TTF
MS Linedraw LINEDRAW.TTF
The available raster fonts probably only include:-
Facename Filenames
Courier 10,12,15 COURF.FON
Fixedsys VGAFIX.FON
Terminal VGAOEM.FON
Terminal 8514OEM.FON
While the raster fonts are
more legible than the vector fonts -
especially at small point sizes - all these fonts are poor choices for intensive screen work.
The character glyphs are small,
thin and indistinct and many
individual characters are easily confused
( 0 and
O,
1,
land
I,
2 and
Z,
8 and
B,
(,
{ and
[.)
The raster fonts include too few point sizes to be effective and flexible choices at different monitor resolutions.
HVRaster - A Hi-Visibility Monospaced Raster
Font
HVRaster is a
OEM Codepage 437 monospaced bitmap
font. (If you prefer TrueType fonts, our
HVEdit
suite provides TrueType
alternatives.)
Click on
the image below to see a comparison of the
HVRaster
font with the fonts available in Windows.
Click
on the image below to see a screen shot of the HVRaster
fonts being used in a programmer's editor.
The
Licensed
version of the
HVRaster.FON
file provides the
HVFont
in three different
widths - Standard,
Narrow and Wide - and over
20 different
sizes from 6x7
pixel glyphs (5
points) to 14x30
(23 points).
Click
on the image below to see some of the
HVRaster
fonts sizes included.
The Evaluation version has a
subset of five of the
Standard width fonts in glyph sizes from 8x12 to
14x30.
Click here to download an Evaluation version of the HVRaster
font package.
Click here to purchase one of PROCON's HVFont
packages.
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