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

[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.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was either Helvetica or Univers, because looking at those fonts, they both have lower case 'a' with a line at the top. The font I remember (I think) didn't have this, possibly because it was designed to look like the sort of lower case 'a' that children learning to write would use.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. I remember a font a little like Comic Sans in that it was designed to resemble handwriting.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It was less cartoony, less wiggly that Comic Sans.