

Many Korean people also prefer to use it.Ģ. I think Malgun Gothic is so beautiful font to represent the beauty of Korean font. I suggest that we should set Malgun Gothic for the default font of Firefox instead of Gulim in Windows Vista/7, which is the default system font in Windows Vista/7. The following is an example of the System typeface.User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1įirefox has used Gulim font by default to render Korean, but many Korean web sites don't use Gulim anymore because Gulim is old fashioned font. Also the 8514 variant remained in use on modern Windows versions as a high-DPI version of it. Also, CGA, EGA and 8514/a versions of this font existed, also designed in the same period (1988-1989) by Microsoft Corporation. FON file (viewable with a hex editor or with a typeface editor such as Fony), reveals that this font was designed by Microsoft Corporation in 1988-1989, according to the copyright string hidden in the font file.

When Windows is running with low system resources, System is the fallback font used for displaying texts.Īlso, a string hidden in the. Similarly, changing language setting for Windows applications that do not support Unicode will alter the appearance of the font. In Windows 2000 or later, changing script setting in some application's font dialogue (e.g.: Notepad, WordPad) causes the font to look completely different, even under same font size. Under DBCS Windows environment, specifying this font may also cause applications to use non-System fonts when displaying texts.

Fonts of different code pages have different point sizes. Sharing the same letterforms as Microsoft Sans Serif, the font family contains fonts encoded in several Windows code pages, with multiple resolutions of the font for each code page. System is a family of proportional raster fonts distributed with Microsoft Windows. For the font named System prior to Windows 3.0, see Fixedsys.
