[itronitron]

I have always thought that the font used in Minecraft is just a standard available font, like System or Dialog. Is that incorrect?

[boredpudding]

It's a specific font to Minecraft. It's not an existing font. It appeared before Minecraft in 'Legend of Chambered', which was a simple game created by Notch, who later created Minecraft.

[haunter]

GNU Unifont afaik