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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Dec 1998.
Re: A Few Monospaced Font Links

Re: A Few Monospaced Font Links

>Subject: A Few Monospaced Font Links
>From: Firedraake <fir...@earthlink.net>
>Date: 12/16/98 4:14 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <369...@news.earthlink.net>
>
>Here are some freebie monospaced fonts worth checking out if you're short
>on your selection of Fixed-Width Fonts!
>
>===========================================================================
>Crystal font - Version 4  (This one has slashes in the zeros)
>
>http://www.braveidea.com/Font.html
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>HyperFont - (also with slashes in the zeros)
>
From web page:  The character set is not the "standard" Windows ANSI set.
>It is the pre-windows DOS character set (aka CP 437), which differs from
>Windows ANSI in the characters numbered above 128.
>
>ftp://www.hilgraeve.com/pub/vendor/hilgraeve/hyprfont.zip
>
>NOTE:  I just installed this font and it looks really good at 11-point on
>my screen -- just slightly wider than Andale/Monotype.com fonts and with
>the more graceful curves, it makes it a nice change from other monospaced
>fonts.  This one is actually fun to read. :)  One thing about this font,
>however, is that the vertical bar character "|" is split in two

     That's the way it should be (kudos to the font author), that character is
called the PIPE. It is used in the DOS command line a lot.
--
     .-~~-.
    (_^..^_)
Lester||||AMC
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