A Font That Resembles the Old DOS or Terminal Fonts?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but I couldn't think where to ask this rather frivolous question.

I am writing something about computers (in Word) and I would love to put it in a font that looks like the old terminal fonts. Can anyone tell me what such a font might be called and where to find such a thing? When I type in OEM font or VT100 font, I get reams of sites that are for programming. I just want this for aesthetic and, as I say, frivolous reasons. Any help most appreciated.

Thanks,

Giles

PowerBook G4 Pismo 550 Mhz, 100 GB HDD/7200, 1 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11, Mac OS X (10.4.11), PowerBook G4 12" Superdrive w OS 10.4.10

Posted on Aug 13, 2010 8:37 AM

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Aug 15, 2010 7:25 AM in response to BDAqua

Thanks guys. I did manage to find VT 100 on my G4 and installed it on the Pismo. But when I saw it up close it's just too hard to read. For now I've started to use OCR Std A which is not quite what I want but not bad.

Basically what I'm trying to do is make my Word screen look like the old DOS screens (bright green or amber terminal-style font on black background). It's easy to do in online mode--problem is, I need to work in Page Layout mode. I don't know why Word doesn't allow you to change the background colour in Page Layout mode--poor buggers like me who have to work on long, long Word projects have to stare at a bright white screen all day, or use that ugly white-on-blue option (which is what I've been doing to save my eyesight.) Any suggestions?

Aug 16, 2010 5:27 AM in response to BDAqua

Problem is, if you do it as a Watermark (so that it's on every page), it's automatically washed out. It also doesn't cover the whole page and i don't think you can resize. If you do it as a picture, you'd have to do it every time you start a new page--and I work on documents that are hundreds of pages, so that would be too tedious. "Background" is the obvious feature, but as soon as you click on that, Word switches you into Online Layout which throws off page dimensions etc. That's what I'm using at the moment, but I find it surprising that MS--in these days when there are "skins" for everything--hasn't made this very simple, but very pleasant, option available.

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