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by 111111IIIIIII 1078 days ago
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.
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tadfisher 1078 days ago
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.
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eropple 1078 days ago
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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