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Try these visual tools; they may change how you use Windows and how Windows looks to you. These are Try-before-you-buy tools; if you find any tool useful, you must pay for it. Prices are very reasonable, just a few dollars.
The Courier New TrueType font must have single-handedly forced a million programmers and writers to buy bigger monitors. There must be a better way to look at fixed-pitch text than that scrawny font.
There is.
Console fonts are fixed-pitch bitmap fonts that are optimized for writing source code, not for writing letters. These tasks are quite different. The main advantage is readability, which everyone needs, not just programmers. If you use any application that uses fixed-pitch fonts, you'll find it a nicer place to work when you use Console.
Console is a fixed-pitch font with the complete ANSI character set in a wide variety of sizes. The ANSI font includes extremely readable characters from large and readable to nearly tiny. In 1024x768 screen mode, choose from 80 characters and 33 lines, to 110x70.
If you prefer the DOS character set, we offer three versions of Console 437. Designs are optimized for 8-, 9-, and 10-pixel wide characters.
This example compares Courier New, Courier and our Console font, enlarged to 200 percent of screen size. Notice that lines in characters are a single-pixel thick. At a given size, characters in Console fonts are larger than Courier.
NOTE: You don't have to be a computer programmer to use Console fonts. If you use any text editor with fixed-pitch fonts, you can benefit from the increased readability and tighter line spacing. Small registration fee.
Download: CONSOLE.ZIP (42KB).
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Your Internet browser makes pages look good, but it sure takes a lot of space on the screen just to show the window title bar. Want to make the title bar at the top of this window smaller? Simple, use a smaller font. But then you won't be able to read it, and the buttons in the corner of the window will be so tiny that there's nothing on them. What will we do? What shall we do?
Here's a solution, and it'll make the title bar look good at the same time. The Screen Gothic font, available in three sizes (from flat and wide, to kind of squatty, to not so squatty), is designed for title bars. It has no extra spacing between rows. This means you can use it crunched-up to make very skinny title bars, but with a big, readable font. Screen Gothic is round, wide, and eccentric, without being annoyingly clever. There's a little bit of Century Gothic and Avant Garde, plus some Geometric 231. Mainly, though, it's wide and squatty. And it's Free.
Download: SCRGOTH.ZIP (8KB).
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Microsoft Windows is a great place to run MS-DOS applications -- even in a window. But the standard fonts are ugly or inappropriate for high resolution displays, especially for long sessions and 50-line mode. And sizes are too inflexible to get the most from 640x480 screens.
Now you can work around Windows limitations and get the most from DOS applications running in Windows. See readable 50-line text mode in every screen resolution, even in 640x480 mode, while leaving room on the screen for more programs.
Based on the technology used in our Console fonts, SVGADOS.FON is a new Terminal font that replaces Windows VGAOEM.FON or 8514OEM.FON. The new font increases readability for DOS applications and Windows applications that use the Terminal font (such as the HyperTerminal communications program). Supported by Windows 3.1 or later, this font family replaces the scratchy font Microsoft Windows uses to display DOS applications in graphic mode "DOS boxes."
Small registration fee.
Download: SVGADOS.ZIP (18KB).
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In this world of TrueType, bitmap screen fonts are still invaluable. Interface fonts give a new personality to Windows, improving the look of Microsoft Windows applications. You can replace menu fonts with type that's smaller yet more readable, and personalized title bars that don't fill half the screen.
Download: WINFONB.ZIP soon (***KB).
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Nope, not another hundred ripped-off or cobbled-together clones of display fonts. We have just a few fonts, designed for books, reports and manuals. If you're printing documentation in-house or using the corner copy store, you know the issues: missing serifs (and the cross-bar on "e"), and blotchy, over-dense tiny print.
Yes, Times and Garamond are sophisticated, and Futura looks cool, but in the real world, you'll never get a three-cent photocopy worth reading. Until we release our documentation fonts, try Bitstream's "Charter BT" for body text, and Microsoft's Verdana for headlines--they were both designed by Bitstream's Matthew Carter for low-resolution display and printing. Charter BT looks best at 10-14pt. Verdana works well at just about any size, even tiny. Avoid using Verdana bold for big headlines, because it's very heavy and wide. Microsoft Word includes "Arial Narrow," a very good headline face.
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