[CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, comp.fonts
Subject	[CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems
Date	2015-10-25 07:17 +0000
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<n0hvm1$c6j$1@solani.org> (permalink)

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From the «looks good to me» department:
Title: 'System shock'
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:10:34 -0400
Link: http://osnews.com/story/28913/_System_shock_

So, Medium tried a new thing on their website in which they render the site in
system fonts - San Francisco, Roboto, Segoe - but soon they started getting bug
reports from people about Medium showing blocky, pixellated fonts. I looked
again at all the system fonts and none seemed to match any of the descriptions.
What was going on? I started asking for screenshots, and eventually a few
trickled in. And, suddenly, I realized I know this font. It was a font I saw on
my first PC. I love this story.


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[CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-25 07:17 +0000
  Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-10-26 05:40 +0100
    Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern   systems RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-26 08:20 +0300
      Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern   systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-10-27 11:40 +0100
        Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-27 12:51 +0200
          Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-27 11:00 +0000
            Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-04 11:06 +0100
              Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-20 14:10 +0000
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-22 11:59 +0100
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock']     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-11-22 03:43 -0800
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-23 11:47 +0100
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock']     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-11-23 07:31 -0800
                Re: Static blog software [was 'System Shock'] Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-29 21:52 +0100
          Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-27 14:54 -0300
          Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-04 10:45 +0100
            Re: [CM] 'System Shock': story about old Windows font on modern systems     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-11-04 03:46 -0800

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