Modern DOS

Size Waterfall

72px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

48px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

36px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

16px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Text Samples

Pangrams

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

How vexingly quick daft zebras jump

Paragraph

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

Numbers

0123456789

2.718281828459045

9,876,543.21

Designer's Notes

===| Description |===

Modern DOS is a raster monospace serif typeface based on IBM and Verite, extracted from ROM fonts part of various computers, created with FontForge.

Source files: https://notabug.org/HarvettFox96/ttf-moderndos

===| Update log |===

Version 20190101.02:

- Modified OS/2 (line gap, super/subscript and strike-through only) and TeX metrics.
- Set some entries to unfit in panose.

Version 20190101.01:

- Added Powerline (terminal) character support.
- Updated copyright/attribution notice.

Version 20181216.02:

- Handled all different OS/2 metrics to set 12pt.

Version 20181216.01:

- Added many characters including some languages, and currency, legal and other symbols.
- Minor fixes.
- Removed all CP437 variants.

Version 2018.09.29-1:

- Changed licence to Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0.
- Updated typeface information.

Version 2017.05.01:

- Added 8x14 (EGA) and 9x14 (MDA) size.
- Minor character fix.

Version 2017.03.25:

- Added 8x8 (CGA) and 9x16 (CGA) size.
- Changed licence to SIL Open Font Licence (OFL) 1.1.
- Changed version style to release date.
- Redrawn all characters with Inkscape.
- Renamed to “Modern DOS”.

===| Copyright/attribution notice |===

© 2009-2019 Jayvee Enaguas (HarvettFox96). Released under a libre/free public domain licence as Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0. Applies worldwide countries including the Philippines, Spain, etc.

Public domain / GPL / OFL License

Open source and freely available

This font is licensed under the Public domain / GPL / OFL license. Please review the complete license terms for detailed usage rights and restrictions.