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By eye alone, I'm pretty sure that is not MS Sans Serif as rendered in Windows 95 and Windows 98.





Recreating old fonts in modern browsers is a hard problem

https://web.archive.org/web/20230603234837/https://vistaserv...


Sure, but I refuse to call this a faithful recreation of the aesthetic until the fonts look correct. :D

On a related note, I did start working on some tools to work with legacy .FONs for this exact purpose earlier this year, but the project is iceboxed for now...


Sounds like it was a hard problem!

They’ve also kept the pixelated nature. The XP style sheet linked in another comment [1] draws at high res for its text and shapes and so retains the feel of the UI without the constraints.

I — we? — like the 98 etc UI for its clarity and simplicity not its low resolution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056921


The fonts are pixelated, but those pixels don't appear to align with the physical ones, so they're blurry in some places. Meanwhile, on a real 98 you either had crisp fonts, or neatly and consistently blurred by the CRT.



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