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 This font was superseded by Lucida Console in Notepad for later versions of Windows.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 8x8 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.

Another variant of Fixedsys found on Command Prompt, mapping all the bitmap glyphs to their unicode codepoint.

Size: 10*20

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Extra characters: "€"

reFixedsys Mono

It's been a year since I've created "Fixedsys 2 Monospaced." It's the most downloaded font on my account, with more than 500 downloads.

To celebrate these achievements, allow me to introduce the new Fixedsys--reFixedsys.

Directly re-created from the image in the Wikipedia page, it'll be the best Fixedsys font you'll ever see and use. Enjoy.

NOTE: Click 'TrueType Font' when downloading!

reFixedsys Sans

It's been a year since I've created "Fixedsys 2 Monospaced." It's the most downloaded font on my account, with more than 500 downloads.

To celebrate these achievements, allow me to introduce the new Fixedsys--reFixedsys.

Directly re-created from the image in the Wikipedia page, it'll be the best Fixedsys font you'll ever see and use. Enjoy.

NOTE: Click 'TrueType Font' when downloading!

If you like this font, please consider checking out ReFixedsys Mono and Refixedsys Sans as well, which are my better attempts at recreating the Fixedsys font. They also have more glyphs for other languages.

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This time with More Latin characters! Fixed height issues as well.

Also used as dialogue text in Undertale and Deltarune.

NOTE: Click "TrueType Font" when downloading!

Fixedsys recreated from the original font file. Also used as dialogue text in Undertale and Deltarune.

!! Added "{", "|", "}" and "~"

Closest recreation of original UNDERTALE font! (directly from game files)
Ближайшее воссоздание оригинального шрифта UNDERTALE! (из файлов)

A strong and rounded fixed-width font, aimed at single-font apps such as consoles and text editors. Good for programming and text interface design. Has more glyphs and complete Unicode subsets than most default monospaced fonts.

NOTE: If you want to use this font in Windows console apps, please do NOT download it from here because this website is unable to mark TTF font files as Monospaced, in the way that Windows requires. Instead, read the comments below for 22nd May 2019 and download it from the link provided.