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.