HyperFont is a
monospaced
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spaci ...
sans-serif font developed in 1993 by Hilgraeve Inc. to be used by the
HyperTerminal
HyperACCESS (sometimes known as HyperTerminal) is a family of terminal emulation software by Hilgraeve. A version of HyperACCESS called HyperTerminal is included in some versions of Windows.
History
It was the first software product from Hilgr ...
terminal emulation
A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term ''terminal'' covers all remote ter ...
application program included in
Microsoft Windows.
Three different font type versions are available:
* Hyperdk.fon - HyperFont Dark (
raster font
A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor. A computer font specifically designed for the computer screen, and not for print ...
)
* Hyperlt.fon - HyperFont Light (raster font)
* Hypertt.ttf - HyperFont (
trueType
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating ...
)
''HyperFont'' was created to allow an 80-column view in the HyperTerminal window.
OEM/DOS is the visualized font code.
{{Free and open-source typography
Monospaced typefaces
Sans-serif typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1993