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susamlast Monday at 12:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Slightly off-topic but related.

See also: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack from VileR at <https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/>.

I came across this website when I was looking for IBM PC OEM fonts for a little HTML + Canvas-based invaders-like game I was developing a few years ago. It is impressive how much effort VileR has poured into recovering each OEM font and their countless variants, from a wide range of ROMs. The site not only archives them all with incredible attention to detail, but also offers live previews, aspect ratio correction and other thoughtful features that make exploring it a joy. I've spent numerous hours there comparing different OEM fonts and hunting down the best ones to use in my own work!


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Gormolast Monday at 12:56 PM

I've been using the Px437 Verite 9x6 font from this pack as my main terminal font for years now, and couldn't be happier with it. VileR's font pack is great for both retro use cases, like displaying ANSI art, and for modern ones.