As I see in ROS 0.2.9 the font in noteopad looks a lot of different to the font which Microsoft used in its Notepad.
In Win95/98 Microsoft used for Notepad FixedSys as font. In WinXP it used LucidaConsole.
But what is with FixedSys? Is it completly new created by Microsoft? I think no.
Have a look at the PC-system font. I mean the VGA-font which you see, if you start your computer or which you see, when FreeLoader runs.
The PC-system have three standard fonts. The CGA font have 8x8 pixel. The EGA-font is a little bit bigger and the VGA-font is 8x16 pixel large. Today you see nearly only the VGA-fonts.
There existing also some OpenSource programs, which draws this fonts on the screen: QEmu, DosBox, freeBASIC, etc.
And if you compare this font with the Win95/Win98 fixedsys font, you will see, that letters like "A" and "O" are completly the same. And the other letters have mostly only the squiggle, curlicue, flourish or how it is called erased. If you erase it on letters like "B", "D", "F", "d" and so on, then the most majority of the letters looks completly like the fixedsys font of Win95/Win98. Only the "0" and some other letters looks then different.
In WinXP the FixedSys font looks now different. I think there it is a completly new creation by Microsoft. It is also smaller (I think 7x14 or so) then the old fixedsys font.
But I think, if anybody want to create a fixedsys font for ReactOS, then using the PC-system-fonts and removing the protruded lines, would be a good basis for the ReactOS fixedsys font.
The fixedsys font is a little bit unique. It is not a extern TrueType font. It is integrated in the system. It is also not a vector-graphic font. It exists only in one size. There existing no bold or italic version of it. And it will not be antialiased. And if you remove all fonts of the Windows-System, Windows will use the fixedsys font insted.
Greatings theuserbl