Set system font OS 6

What were the models for both the original Mac and the Mac SE?

Sorry, I do not know anything about that specific game, but have you checked and compared fonts installed in the System file (with System 6, a Font/DA Mover is used for viewing/moving fonts)?

Where (menus, dialogues, etc) would one find the difficult to read typeface? Does the problem appear when other programs are used?

What can be seen inside the System file (in the System Folder)? The Font/DA Mover utility can be used to view installed fonts (if necessary, in a System file on another disk, too). Remember, System 6 is different from System 7 (the System suitcase in a System 7 System Folder can be opened directly).

Fonts can be installed and removed by the Font/DA Mover.

You may also want to try to (re)install System 6.0.8 (directly from floppy disks) onto the hard disk in the Macintosh SE.

OK... I took another path = Google keyword's [ "Webster's Revenge" game font ]

Macworld Apr 1985 - MacWorld_8504_April_1985.pdf

http://vintageapple.org/macworld/pdf/MacWorld_8504_April_1985.pdf

search for "Webster's Revenge" in the PDF viewer "FIND"

Shows an Description and contact info for the author (I read in a forum post that mail came back undeliverable)

GoogleIMAGE

This looks like CHICAGO for all the labels & likely Times for the "letters"

There were not that many fonts on the systems back in 1985!

"user group" document found in initial keyword search

Full text of "Apple 2000 - Vol 2 No. 1 (1987-02)(BASUG)(GB)"

https://archive.org/stream/Apple_2000_Vol_2_No._1_1987-02_BASUG_GB/Apple_2000_Vo l_2_No._1_1987-02_BASUG_GB_djvu.txt

This seems to be a "Library" (maybe?)

PD Library - ST NEWS Atari Multimedia Disk Magazine

http://st-news.com/issues/st-news-volume-3-issue-1/regulars/pd-library/

The original system software for a Macintosh Classic II was 7.0.1 (and this is the only supported version in an old Apple article System Software: Version Matrix, System 6.0.x to 7.0.1). Also, as you can see in System 6.0.8L: ReadMe File (8/95), a special system (6.0.8L) was used in some cases (please note the limitations regarding other computers).

Since you mentioned that the hard drive had been moved from the Classic II to the SE, is the system version 6.0.8L? If yes, it may not be a bad idea to try (System 6.0.3 or) a plain 6.0.8 on the SE. I do not know whether this would have any effect at all as far as the font problem is concerned, but it would at least rule out one unknown factor, and you would have a fresh (and supported) Macintosh SE system installation. Unless the SE is an FDHD variant, you would (normally) carry out the installation from (four) 800K floppy disks.

Do you have, for example, a System 6.0.8 on 800K floppies? If so, and if the SE's floppy drive is working, you should be able to directly install a fresh system. Otherwise, a second older Mac (with Disk Copy 4.2) may be required in order to create sector-copied 800K system disks from disk images.

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk1o f4.sea.bin

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk2o f4.sea.bin

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk3o f4.sea.bin

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk4o f4.sea.bin

In the Installer, you can switch between disks, but if the hard disk is not shown at all, you will need some kind of utility. To begin with, try Disk First Aid on one of your system floppies; does that program detect the hard disk? If not, try Apple HD SC Setup (do not initialise; just check whether the hard disk is recognised).

If the aforementioned utilities do not see the hard disk, you could try a third-party program (such as Lido 7.5.6).

Addendum

A third-party utility can be useful for checking the SCSI bus. However, modifying an 800K system floppy to hold a program such as Lido 7.5.6 will require a bit of work since the space is limited (I assume that you are using a "normal " SE with only an 800K floppy drive). You should be able to use your Classic II for creating or modifying floppy disks, since that machine is capable of handling both 1.44 MB and 800K.

Do you have access to an external SCSI Zip 100 drive? Do you have another pre-1998 Macintosh computer with a floppy drive?

Generally speaking, downloading files for older Macintosh computers can be done on a modern Mac or PC with a USB floppy drive attached (but only on 1.44 MB floppy disks). Always keep the MacBinary (.bin) or BinHex (.hqx) encoding intact until on a suitable pre-1998 intermediate Mac. Once there, use StuffIt Expander to decode any downloaded files.