Which font is used in MS-DOS?

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federico-t picture federico-t · Feb 7, 2012 · Viewed 86.8k times · Source

Does anyone know which is the font that the Windows console/MS-DOS uses?

Answer

Japhy Riddle picture Japhy Riddle · Nov 18, 2015

The one that I grew up with in the days of VGA is called "Code page 437"

The closest one I've seen is called "More Perfect DOS VGA"

It can be downloaded here: http://laemeur.sdf.org/fonts/

I've only found one discrepancy so far: the ` is a little different from 437.

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