Fonts Provided for Compatibility

The user interface in Windows 95 relies on TrueType fonts. However, three fonts — System, Fixed, and OEM (or Terminal) — are installed to support display and output devices to support other applications that may require these fonts. Each of these fonts supports two display types — 8514/a (1024x768) resolution and VGA (640x480) resolution.

System is a proportional font used by default to draw menus, dialog box controls, and other text in Windows 95.
Fixed is a fixed-width font used in Windows 2.x and earlier versions as the system font (for menus and dialog boxes).
OEM font (also known as the Terminal font for United States and Europe) is a fixed-width font used, for example, to display the OEM text in the Windows 95 ClipBook Viewer. The OEM font also provides an OEM character set used by some Windows-based applications.

The filenames of the System, Fixed, and OEM fonts provided with Windows 95 are listed in the following table arranged by display type.

Font name	8514/a	VGA
System	8514SYS.FON	VGASYS.FON
Fixed	8514FIX.FON	VGAFIX.FON
OEM	8514OEM.FON	VGAOEM.FON

Windows 95 also provides a set of fonts for displaying MS-DOS – based applications running in a window.

By default, code page 437 (U.S.) fonts are installed. Other font files are included for international language support and are identified by the code page number appended to the filename.

The following font files are provided with the associated code page translation table files.

Font file(s)	Code page	Configuration
CGA40WOA.FON, CGA80WOA.FON, DOSAPP.FON, EGA40WOA.FON, EGA80WOA.FON	437	U.S.
APP850.FON	850	U.S.
CGA40850.FON, CGA80850.FON, EGA40850.FON, EGA80850.FON, VGA850.FON	850	Multilingual
VGA860.FON	860	Portuguese
VGA861.FON	861	Icelandic
VGA863.FON	863	French Canadian
VGA865.FON	865	Norwegian/Danish

Note The TrueType fonts included on the Windows 95 compact disc contain approximately 650 characters that cover all the European languages. For more information about installing multilanguage support in Windows 95, see Chapter 34, "International Windows 95."