2.2.1 Stock-Fonts Resource

The stock-font resource (defined by the FONTS.BIN file) defines the characteristics of the stock-font objects used by Windows. Windows requires three stock fonts:

OEM font (the Terminal font)

ANSI fixed-pitch font

ANSI variable-pitch font

Windows supplies a wide variety of stock-font files at various aspect ratios, so most display drivers do not have to provide the actual font files to support these stock fonts. Windows provides the following screen and system fonts.

Font name
Aspect ratio
Logical pixels
per inch X
Logical pixels
per inch Y

COURB EGA, 1.33 to 1 96 72
EGASYS EGA, 1.33 to 1 96 72
SERIFB EGA, 1.33 to 1 96 72
SMALLB EGA, 1.33 to 1 96 72
SSERIFB EGA, 1.33 to 1 96 72
COURE VGA, 1 to 1 96 96
SERIFE VGA, 1 to 1 96 96
SMALLE VGA, 1 to 1 96 96
SSERIFE VGA, 1 to 1 96 96
VGAFIX VGA, 1 to 1 96 96
VGASYS VGA, 1 to 1 96 96
8514FIX 8514/A, 1 to 1 120 120
8514SYS 8514/A, 1 to 1 120 120
COURF 8514/A, 1 to 1 120 120
SERIFF 8514/A, 1 to 1 120 120
SMALLF 8514/A, 1 to 1 120 120
SSERIFF 8514/A, 1 to 1 120 120

All the filenames have the same .FON extension.