Fixedsys шрифт windows 10

Fixedsys Excelsior font with programming ligatures

Distribution terms

The font was originally authored by Darien Valentine @bathos and provided via a now-defunct site at fixedsysexcelsior.com. This derivative’s source code repository and issue tracker can be found at github.com/kika/fixedsys.

The creator(s) of this content have released it to the public domain. For jurisdictions where this is not permitted, it is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero Dedication.

It looks like this

Where to get the result without compiling

The compiled TTF binary font is on the Releases page.
There are two versions provided:

  1. Default has =< and >= ligated into «less or equal» and «greater or equal»
  2. Alt version enables <= (replacing reverse fat arrow) and >= instead (closes #3)

What is the ALT version in the releases about?

The fonts declare a set of ligatures that replace certain groups of adjacent characters by a combined glyph. The ALT variant has some of the ligature declarations swapped to facilitate code programming, where <= is almost always meant to be a less-or-equal operator, and also works for the general case too, based on the presumption that left fat arrows are seldomly used even in scientific texts.

Input Normal variant ALT variant
<= left fat arrow less-or-equal
<== left fat arrow left fat arrow
=> right fat arrow right fat arrow
=< less-or-equal (no ligature)
>= greater-or-equal greater-or-equal
>== (no ligature) (no ligature)

Rationale

I (Kirill Pertsev) was always jealous for folks using Fira Code,
Hasklig or Monoid
fonts, but my problem is that I have a hard time reading (not even mentioning writing)
a computer program in anything but an 8×16 font. I probably spent too much time with older
computers. So after fighting and losing an uphill battle with Glyph2, Fontlab and Fontforge
I discovered TTX and was able to finally stop being jealous.

This current release has almost everything I use regularly. Feel free to request in the issues. PRs are of course
more than welcome. I hope I’m not the only crazy guy on the internet using 8×16
font for consoles and text editing.

History

This font is a simulated 8×16 bitmap font from old Windows and DOS. It was
truly monospaced and really bitmapped and initially contained only
windows-1250, windows-1251, a subset of windows-1252, windows-1253
and windows-1254.
Darien simulated the bitmap with TrueType outlines by building the font from
10×10 squares («pixels») and then joining the squares together. As such, this font
only works as intended in only one size and usually with antialiasing switched
off. The size is 16px, or 12pt@96dpi.

He also added a lot of foreign characters and made the font Unicode.

Tech trivia

The font is distributed in binary TTF format and I decompiled it with
TTX, added a few symbols inspired by
Fira Code and created necessary ligatures.

To design the symbols I used quad lined paper, pencil and rubber eraser. Like
in good old days, you know.

The supported programming ligatures are listed in the ligatures.txt file.

To create a TTF file from TTX XML, just run ttx -f FSEX.ttx
(-f means overwrite) or use the OS X Makefile to also copy it to the user Fonts
folder and update the font cache.

Supported software (incomplete list, send updates please)

I only tested in MacVim so far (this is the only editor I use). Comments and bug
reports welcome. MacVim should be quite recent for ligatures to work.
Note: Versions of MacVim above 8.1-146 seem to have a regression where ligatures are not displayed correctly. Use brew pin to maintain your MacVim version below this until this is fixed.
Tracking issue and workaround

Add the following to your .vimrc:

set guifont=Fixedsys\ Excelsior:h16
set noanti
set macligatures

Courtesy of @ForNeVeR:

  • Windows + IDEA (Oracle JDK): renders ligatures, but have problems rendering latin A letter (it occupies no space in text and gets composed with a next character). There’s a warning in IDEA interface telling about incompatibilities of Oracle JDK and fonts with ligatures.

  • Windows + IDEA (JetBrains JDK): no problems noticed.

  • Windows + VS Code:

      "editor.fontFamily": "Fixedsys Excelsior",
      "editor.fontSize": 16,
      "editor.fontLigatures": true

    or, for newer versions (courtesy of @Kaffiend)

    "editor.fontFamily": "'Fixedsys Excelsior 3.01'",
    "editor.fontSize": 15,
    "editor.fontLigatures": true

    (The following is only for VSCode on MacOS) For many people this may look ugly because Fixedsys is not designed to be used with antialiasing. Then you may add the following option

     "workbench.fontAliasing": "none"

    Which will make code editor look nice, but everything else in the VSCode UI — ugly. The solution to that is to modify the CSS for the VSCode itself.
    Here is the script that I keep more or less updated when VSCode changes the CSS

  • Windows + Visual Studio 2015: works mostly okay, but -> ligature doesn’t work. That’s a known problem of WPF text renderer.

  • Windows + ConEmu: no ligatures at all. Powerline stuff works okay though, so font is usable even without ligatures. I’d recommend to set font cell width manually to 8 (otherwise it’ll have problems determining proper places for line wrapping and rendering Far Manager UI): SettingsMainMain console font group → select Cell: 8 from the selector.

Emacs

Courtesy of @adrianparvino

Requires you to move the U+10001 PUA block to the first PUA block

In this example, U+10001 was moved to U+efb0.

Based on https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Setting-up-Emacs

(set-fontset-font t '(#Xefb0 . #Xefc5) "Fixedsys Excelsior")
(defconst fixedsys-excelsior-font-lock-keywords-alist
  (mapcar (lambda (regex-char-pair)
	    `(,(car regex-char-pair)
	      (0 (prog1 ()
		   (compose-region (match-beginning 1)
				   (match-end 1)
				   ;; The first argument to concat is a string containing a literal tab
				   ,(concat "	" (list (decode-char 'ucs (cadr regex-char-pair)))))))))
	  '(("\\(>>=\\)"        #Xefb0)
	    ("\\(=<<\\)"        #Xefb1)
	    ("\\(<\\*>\\)"      #Xefb2)
	    ("\\(<\\$>\\)"      #Xefb3)
	    ("\\(::\\)"         #Xefb4)
	    ("\\(:=\\)"         #Xefb5)
	    ("\\(<<<\\)"        #Xefb6)
	    ("\\(>>>\\)"        #Xefb7)
	    ("\\(<>\\)"         #Xefb8)
	    ("\\(/=\\)"         #Xefb9)
	    ("\\({-\\)"         #Xefba)
	    ("\\(-}\\)"         #Xefbb)
	    ("\\(<|\\)"         #Xefbc)
	    ("\\(|>\\)"         #Xefbd)
	    ("\\(~>\\)"         #Xefbe)
	    ("\\(<~\\)"         #Xefbf)
	    ("\\(<~>\\)"        #Xefc0)
	    ("\\(<^>\\)"        #Xefc1)
	    ("\\(/\\\\\\)"      #Xefc2)
	    ("\\(<|>\\)"        #Xefc3)
	    ("\\(>=>\\)"        #Xefc4)
	    ("\\(<=<\\)"        #Xefc5))))


(defun add-fixedsys-excelsior-symbol-keywords ()
  (font-lock-add-keywords nil fixedsys-excelsior-font-lock-keywords-alist))

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook
          #'add-fixedsys-excelsior-symbol-keywords)

Sublime Text 3 (build 3146+)

Should be defined in the user settings as so:

	"font_face": "Fixedsys Excelsior",
	"font_size": 16,
	"font_options": ["gray_antialias"]

ToDo

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Published: 29th March, 2024
Last edited: 24th March, 2025
Created: 29th March, 2024

Fixedsys is a family of raster monospaced fonts. The name means fixed system, because its glyphs are monospace or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike other monospace fonts such as Courier). It is the oldest font in Microsoft Windows, and was the system font in Windows 1.0 and 2.0, where it was simply named «System«. For Windows 3.x, the system font was changed to a proportional sans-serif font named System, but Fixedsys remained the default font in Notepad.

Fixedsys fonts family contains fonts encoded in several Windows code pages, with multiple resolutions of the font for each code page. Fixedsys fonts of different code pages have different point sizes.

The glyphs for the upper areas of each one appear to be drawn separately, not taken from a single master set, as there are visible differences in the appearance of various visually similar characters that are shared between the code pages.

Though Fixedsys is a sans-serif font, it is vaguely similar in appearance to the hardware text mode font of most IBM-compatible PCs, though not as similar as certain sizes of Terminal fonts seen in Windows.

In Windows 95, 98, and Windows Me, Fixedsys remains as the default font for Notepad. This font was superseded by Lucida Console in Notepad for later versions of Windows. In Windows 95, this default font cannot be changed. Fixedsys of other code pages can be selected by specifying script settings in font selection dialogue, but not font of all code pages can be chosen.

Due to its clean style and easy readability, it has enjoyed some popularity with the programming community, even giving rise to an imitation font — Fixedsys Excelsior — which, based on the original Fixedsys typeface, also includes a large number of Unicode script ranges.[2]

There is a certain amount of similarity between Fixedsys and Chicago, the default system typeface on the Apple Macintosh between 1984 and 1997. The key difference is that Chicago is a proportional typeface while Fixedsys is monospaced. A smaller CGA version of this font also exists, with some characters bearing a resemblance to the IBM 8×8 CGA font. The EGA version is nearly identical to the CGA version, only in differing in a small number of characters.

According to a string embedded in the .FON file (which is viewable with a hex editor or with a typeface editor such as Fony), this font was designed in 1984 by Bitstream Inc., but the high resolution 8514/a version (used in modern versions of Windows operating system as the high DPI variant, which is larger and looks different from the VGA version) was designed in 1987 by Microsoft Corporation.

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Fixedsys Font Family Free Download

Fixedsys Font is monospaced and displays a typeface that works great, especially for gaming and window code pages. Darien Valentine took charge of designing and releasing it for the first time in 1998.

This unique font which is available in a single weight with True Type file format is the oldest font in the window. Due to its clean style and easy readability, it has gained popularity in the programming community.

You can openly use this font for various design operations such as business design logos, stationary printings, tattoos,  kids’ bags, signage, T-shirt printings, and other related purposes.

But the best use of this Fixedsys typeface is in-game and web development. Therefore, many designers in the field are using it in various programming, web development, and other projects.

Fixedsys Font

Font Name: Fixedsys Font
Style: Display, Monospaced Typeface
Font Designer: Darien Valentine
File Format: TTF
License: Free For Personal Use
Files: Fixedsys (Truetype)

Each letter has a versatile structure that expresses the amazing mindset of using this excellent font. In case you want to explore it in more depth than just look at its texture in the pictures below.

Different games are introduced in the markets every month. Therefore, the demand for gaming fonts is on the rise. So, to help you marvel at great video games or titles, this is the best choice for you.

You can use this font for only personal use. But for commercial use, you first buy it. Some other beautiful fonts are Big Ten Block Font by Daniel Heikkinen and Casablanca Noir Font by Billy Argel.

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