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The uncanny valley comes to mind. It resembles Windows 95, but the fonts and spacing feel wrong.

I think it's pretty dang close. I wonder how much of where it's not quite there is modern font rendering.

It's literally the wrong front. The font here looks like Arial, but the Windows 95 font was something else. I'm pretty sure it was one of those fonts that starts with MS.

IIRC it was MS Sans Serif, which was pretty dang similar to Arial but with wider glyphs and looser spacing. Not much room for design flourish with 10x12 pixels.

Huh - looking at screenshots, you're right. The spacing is wrong and the glyphs are narrow, as per the sibling comment. TIL.

It's close enough for web crimes, though.

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