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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by sjwright on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:12AM (#23166544)
If you've spent a decade looking at VGA screens, its font will be intensely legible to you, regardless how objectively terrible they definitely are. Our ability to read is pattern recognition, and if your brain's neural network is well trained for the VGA text font, it makes sense that you might love them.

Heck—if you spent years reading your terminal upside down, you'd get very good at that too. Eventually you might get nostalgic for it.

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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by perl4ever on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:33PM (#23187020)
VGA monospaced text always looked kind of exotic to me, because I started out looking mainly at the Amiga's Topaz font. Before that, the TRS-80 font, which also seems to have been quite different. And after that, the Macintosh's Monaco and Courier. I always hated Windows Courier New and much prefer Consolas. My favorite is, or was, Computer Modern Typewriter.
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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by retro64 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:43AM (#23168015)
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