CSS font-family of cmd.exe

Question

I can't find any font-family in CSS, which is similar to the font-family used in the CMD.exe. Could you please help me?

Answer 1

You can use

font-family:monospace

to specify that you wish a monospaced font to be used.

The console uses a monospaced font to ensure that all characters have the same width.

Note that some browsers do not correctly implement monospaced, though there are approaches to fix that, eg

http://code.stephenmorley.org/html-and-css/fixing-browsers-broken-monospace-font-handling/

Answer 2

It is a bitmap-font like implementation in CMD.exe, so if you wanna try :

find a correct bitmap file (exemple: https://github.com/idispatch/raster-fonts )

then use a HTML5 canvas and play with your bitmap like this:

http://html5.santo.fr/index.php?post/2011/02/03/Tutorial-8-%3A-Hello-Word-with-BitMap-Font

Good luck ;)

Answer 3

By default, CSS doesn't provide a font that looks perfectly like the raster font of the command prompt.

It is possible to find some fonts that looks similar on dafont.com but those I found wasn't really monospaced (and force a not monospaced police is really ugly ) then I found this site :

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist

Answer 4

CSS3 supports Lucida console . Barring that, I don't know what you're on about.