From the nice article this little hint about a (possible) problem with Qemu:

"qemu seabios 8x8 and 8x14 are exact matches to IBM's VGA and XGA fonts. These files are in fntcol16.zip from simtel. VGA-ROM.F08 and VGA-ROM.F14. qemu source comment claims this is public domain. I doubt IBM would release a font to public domain. Does this mean, qemu relied on claims by package creator and now they use a illegal copy?"

I don't think font geometries are copyrightable, only names.

In any case, the IBM PC fonts are horrendous. They should have gone with the sans-serif they used in their mainframe terminals.

Are you talking about AFP fonts[1]? In that case Sonoran Sans Serif[2]? Then you should probably be happy with Arial[3]. Fun story[4].

Or are you talking about a 3270 font? Then you should have a look at 3270font[5]

[1] https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...

[2] https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial

[4] http://idsgn.org/posts/sonoran-the-hidden-truths/

[5] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

...and then I saw the username i was responding to. I'll post anyway if you do not want to toot your own horn. Nice work!