W95font is the revival of the default Windows 95 font (MS Sans Serif). MS Sans Serif was a proportional raster font, but W95font is a modern scalable .otf.

-- Created by

Alle Sava -> sava.io

-- License

Free for both personal and commercial use, licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL).

SIL OpenFont is a free software license, and fonts covered by this license can be freely used, modified, and distributed (as long as the derivatives remain under the same license).

Please note that the copyright holder has the option of declaring the font’s name as being a “Reserved Font Name“, which means that any modified versions of the font must be renamed so that they don’t contain the original name. Subsetting for webfonts is also considered modified font.

Can I use the font commercially?	Yes ✓
Can I use it as webfont?		Yes ✓
Can I embed it in an app?		Yes ✓
Can I use it in an ebook or .pdf?	Yes ✓
Can I redistribute?			Yes ✓
Can I modify?				Yes ✓ You can use and/or modify software freely. When distributing derivatives you must include a file with the full text of the license.
Can I claim credit?			No × You can’t claim credit for anyone else’s work
Can I sublicense?			No × You cannot change or extend the original license. All derivative work must be covered by the same license as the original.

Creative Commons-like terminology
Permits: Distribution, Reproduction, Embedding, DerivativeWorks
Requires: Attribution, Notice, ShareAlike, DerivativeRenaming, BundlingWhenSelling

-- Technical Details

Drawn as pixel art in Illustrator and exported with FontSelf.

-- Using the Webfont

Add this in your CSS file:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'W95font';
    src: url('w95font.woff2') format('woff2'),
         url('w95font.woff2') format('woff');
    font-weight: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'W95font';
    src: url('w95font-bold.woff2') format('woff2'),
         url('w95font-bold.woff2') format('woff');
    font-weight: bold;

}

-- Changelog

2022-11-17 Added Bold