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mIRC Font: Fixedsys Excelsior
v3.01 NoLiga
This is the defacto (unofficial) TrueType FIXEDSYS font for mIRC.
Use it instead of the FIXEDSYS system bitmap font that only supports 169 characters, now deprecated by Windows.
Fixedsys Excelsior 3.01 includes thousands of unicode characters for over a dozen languages.
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This lets you have the Fixedsys font at more sizes than the original FIxedsys gives. At the same font size offered by Fixedsys, the ASCII text is basically the same.
You'll need to test various sizes to see if they work for you. At some sizes, the characters have a shadowing effect that can affect visibility.
If using this as your scripts editor font, it gives a visible [B] [C] [O] for the Ctrl+B Ctrl+K and Ctrl+O hotekeys. What would make it even more useful would be if it gave [R] [U] [I] symbols for the Ctrl+R Ctrl+U and Ctrl+I symbols too.
While it does map additional unicode characters, this can be a drawback in programs which do font linking. For example, the chess pieces icons don't exist in Fixedsys, so it font-links for them. In NoLiga, it contains icons for the chess pieces which are not the same quality as the ones in MsGothic, so the Queen looks like a profile of Bart SImpson.
Example: //echo -a $replace(R N B Q K B N R,R,$chr(9814),N,$chr(9816),B,$chr(9815),Q,$chr(9813),K,$chr(9812))
If your queen looks like Bart without using any Excelsior font, mIRC font-links the "Fixedsys Excelsior 3.01" font name without the 'No Liga", so you can uninstall that font name and install this font name, and be able to use this font without it affecting your font linking.
This lets you have the Fixedsys font at more sizes than the original FIxedsys gives. At the same font size offered by Fixedsys, the ASCII text is basically the same.
You'll need to test various sizes to see if they work for you. At some sizes, the characters have a shadowing effect that can affect visibility.
If using this as your scripts editor font, it gives a visible [B] [C] [O] for the Ctrl+B Ctrl+K and Ctrl+O hotekeys. What would make it even more useful would be if it gave [R] [U] [I] symbols for the Ctrl+R Ctrl+U and Ctrl+I symbols too.
While it does map additional unicode characters, this can be a drawback in programs which do font linking. For example, the chess pieces icons don't exist in Fixedsys, so it font-links for them. In NoLiga, it contains icons for the chess pieces which are not the same quality as the ones in MsGothic, so the Queen looks like a profile of Bart SImpson.
Example: //echo -a $replace(R N B Q K B N R,R,$chr(9814),N,$chr(9816),B,$chr(9815),Q,$chr(9813),K,$chr(9812))
If your queen looks like Bart without using any Excelsior font, mIRC font-links the "Fixedsys Excelsior 3.01" font name without the 'No Liga", so you can uninstall that font name and install this font name, and be able to use this font without it affecting your font linking.
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Jun 6th, 2021 - By: Saturn
To be clear: I am not the author of this font, and in fact was not involved in any way here. The font itself was made by Darien Valentine, and the NoLiga edit was made by Collective.
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