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For actual fonts you can use in your terminal emulators and whatnot, visit https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/

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Those are missing tons of Unicode glyphs, for obvious reasons. Dmitry Bolkhovityanov maintains an expanded-coverage font[1] which has been converted to many useful formats[2].

1 - https://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/

2 - http://sciops.net/downloads/vga/ (my site)

Thanks for this. I've been using Zeh Fernando's "Perfect DOS VGA 473" (and derivatives like http://laemeur.sdf.org/fonts/) for ages but have been looking for a replacement since those only cover CP473/Windows-1252.

Also very happy to see an outline version on your site since BDF fonts aren't very usable after Pango 1.44 broke support for them: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386

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