Font / Typeface AKICOLJ

[philmophlegm]

1. Does anyone know the name of the font that MS-DOS used?

2. When I was at infant school (1976 - 1979), lots of things like reading flash cards and name badges seemed to have the same sans serif typeface. Is this still used and what is / was it called?

Comments

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

Around 1980 we called our new fancy typewriter font Sans Serif.

I think the old typewriter font was Times Roman.

I don't know about the MS DOS font. Probably something to do with pixels.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

The most common sans serif fonts were Helvetica and Univers. Do either of them look familiar?

I don't think a typewriter could cope with Times Roman. I can't find the names of mechanical typewriter fonts, only of digital fonts imitating them, alas.

[ozisim.livejournal.com]

Can't help you with the 70's typeface problem... My school used a hand-cranked lithograph to copy handwritten notes until the great lamington drive of 1988, which raised enough money to buy a photocopier and an apple IIb computer for the office.

But I'm pretty sure the MS DOS font was Courier. (Though our old MS DOS-based unix database shell used Terminal.)