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Category:Windows

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Jsummers at 22:43, 29 May 2014

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Jsummers at 23:53, 19 May 2014

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Jsummers at 01:25, 18 May 2014

2014-05-18T01:25:52Z

Jsummers: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Fonts |extensions={{ext|fon}} }} '''FON''' is a font file format native to Windows 3.0, and supported by all later versions of Wind..."

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Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Fonts |extensions={{ext|fon}} }} '''FON''' is a font file format native to Windows 3.0, and supported by all later versions of Wind..."

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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Fonts
|extensions={{ext|fon}}
}}
'''FON''' is a font file format native to Windows 3.0, and supported by all later versions of Windows, primarily for compatibility reasons.

It supports both bitmapped and stroked fonts, but aside from the stroked fonts included with Windows (Modern, Roman, and Script), it is used almost exclusively for bitmapped fonts. It is sometimes called '''Windows bitmapped font''' format.

It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format.

Its successor is [[TrueType]].

== Sample files ==
* http://cd.textfiles.com/ccbwindows93/FONTPRGM/ (the .FON files in some of the .ZIP files)
* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/ Simon Tatham's Fonts Page] has some samples

== Links ==
* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/ Simon Tatham's Fonts Page]

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 '''FON''' is a font file format native to Microsoft Windows. It began to be marginalized as of Windows 3.1, with the introduction of [[TrueType]], though it continues to be supported.
-It supports both bitmapped and stroked fonts, but aside from the stroked fonts included with Windows (Modern, Roman, and Script), it is used almost exclusively for bitmapped fonts. It is sometimes called '''Windows bitmapped font''' format.
+It contains fonts in [[FNT (Windows Font)|FNT]] format. As such, it supports both bitmapped and stroked fonts; but aside from the stroked fonts included with Windows (Modern, Roman, and Script), it is used almost exclusively for bitmapped fonts. It is sometimes even called '''Windows bitmapped font''' format.
 It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format. It is usually or always constructed as a valid [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)|DLL]] file.
 == Software ==

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 It supports both bitmapped and stroked fonts, but aside from the stroked fonts included with Windows (Modern, Roman, and Script), it is used almost exclusively for bitmapped fonts. It is sometimes called '''Windows bitmapped font''' format.
-It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format.
+It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format. It is usually or always constructed as a valid [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)|DLL]] file.
 It contains fonts in [[FNT (Windows Font)|FNT]] format.

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	It contains fonts in [[FNT (Windows Font)\|FNT]] format.		It contains fonts in [[FNT (Windows Font)\|FNT]] format.
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		+	== Software ==
		+	* [http://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ PSF Tools]

	== Sample files ==		== Sample files ==

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	It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format.		It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format.
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		+	It contains fonts in [[FNT (Windows Font)\|FNT]] format.

	== Sample files ==		== Sample files ==

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-'''FON''' is a font file format native to Windows 3.0, and supported by all later versions of Windows, primarily for compatibility reasons.
+'''FON''' is a font file format native to Microsoft Windows. It began to be marginalized as of Windows 3.1, with the introduction of [[TrueType]], though it continues to be supported.
 It supports both bitmapped and stroked fonts, but aside from the stroked fonts included with Windows (Modern, Roman, and Script), it is used almost exclusively for bitmapped fonts. It is sometimes called '''Windows bitmapped font''' format.
 It uses [[NE]] (New Executable) format as a container format. Allegedly, it can also use [[PE]] format.
 == Sample files ==

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	== Links ==		== Links ==
	* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/ Simon Tatham's Fonts Page]		* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/ Simon Tatham's Fonts Page]
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		+	[[Category:Microsoft]]