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Not sure if there's anything useful here but I figured I'd share it because I dumped it the other day for another reason

se30vid.zip

I vaguely remember that MS-DOS 6.x had an utility and data files to change the font used in text mode.

Unfortunately I don't remind the name of the utility and the extensions of the file names. I only remembers that at the time I prefered to replace the BIOS font with one called ISO.

Some very interesting comments and links to related projects are available on the discussion about this project that appeared on HackerNews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165282

https://github.com/alexmyczko/ree

I got a collection can provide it.

I am not a lawyer, but, you may want to update your readme...

Contrary to many points of "research" you will find online (much of it lies peddled by foundries) in the US and most other countries (except Germany), rasterized typefaces are all public domain. (NOT FONTS, FONTS SCARY PROTECTED DANGER) Typefaces are safe.

USC 37 CFR § 202.1(e) is the US law makes it clear. No legal protection for typefaces. In the Wikipedia article on this topic's words: "Under U.S. law, typefaces and their letter forms or glyphs are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements."

I so appreciate you collecting these rasterized typefaces, and hope you continue to do so, but urge you to tread very lightly when it comes to the dangerous landmine laden wasteland that is fonts)

You can try weighing through the FUD and poopstorm lies of "research" all the foundries hire people to crank out, but at the end of the day, the law is the law and they aren't getting any pity from me no matter how loud they cry.