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Terminal

Terminal is a family of monospaced raster typefaces.

About Terminal

Terminal is a family of monospaced raster typefaces. It is relatively small compared with Courier. It uses crossed zeros, and is designed to approximate the font normally used in MS-DOS or other text-based consoles such as on Linux. In Windows, it is the default font in the Command Prompt in Windows 7 and earlier. The Terminal font family contains fonts encoded in various code pages, with multiple resolutions of the font for each code page. Fixedsys fonts of different code pages have different point sizes. Under the DBCS Windows environment, specifying the Terminal font may also cause the application to use non-Terminal fonts when displaying text. In Windows 2000 or later, changing the script setting in an application's font dialogue (e.g., Notepad, WordPad) causes the Terminal font to look completely different, even under same font size.

From the Wikipedia article “Terminal (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Terminal in a book

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