designed in 1984 by Bitstream Inc., but the high resolution 8514/a version (used in modern versions of Windows operating system as the high DPI variant, which is larger and looks different from the VGA version) was designed in 1987 by Microsoft Corporation. Example The following is the lorem ipsum as it appears here written in Fixedsys. See also System (typeface) Terminal (typeface) MS Sans Serif References Typefaces and fonts introduced in the 1980s Monospaced typefaces Windows XP typefaces Raster typefaces