Comments on: Get a better font for PuTTY

By: Bob Bagwill

Bob Bagwill — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:45:09 +0000

My favorite is Consolas.

By: Damocles

Damocles — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:12:34 +0000

If you stick to the fonts that come with windows (*), I find that “Lucidia Console” is pretty good. Of couse, I’m used to Solaris, and Solaris’s old X-Windows interface, OpenWindows, many of the terminal emulation windows that came with it used some variation of Lucidia.

I’m kind of suprised that “OCR A Extended” isn’t fixed width. There are lots of 3rd party fonts at:

daFont

I tend to set up each machine slightly differently. I assign a background color to a group of servers (servers owned by the same groups, servers running the same product, etc.) and then I vary the foreground color per machine (though on large groups, I may simply use one foreground color for production, another for development, etc.). It helps to keep me from typing in the wrong window. I also set the cursor color to red for Redhat Linux, green for SuSE, purple for Solaris, Blue for AIX, etc. I typically have my $TERM set to something that doesn’t assume I have a color terminal (I understand people who like say having “ls” print execubale files in one color, links in another, etc. – I just never got into that).

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:25:42 +0000

Long live PERL!

By: robsku

robsku — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:04:22 +0000

Just wondering, while I write PHP too – I really would not use PHP code instead of well written Perl for simple terminal shot to show a fontz.

-Robsku – Just another PERL hacker

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:55:20 +0000

I’m embarassed to admit I did not know you could launch putty using the root@host switch. I reckon if you add up all the lost seconds over the last few years each time I opened the GUI and entered the host, then account, or searched the saved connection… I’d probably have a week or so of wasted time!

nice tip – sometimes the simple ones are still the best…

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:50:15 +0000

I believe only fixed-width fonts are usable in PuTTY. Sounds like that may be the issue.

By: james

james — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:47:48 +0000

oops “think” should be “thinking” sorry.
I remember when I installed slackware linux – there was a command line font config section within the setup (straight after installation) – one option was this really cool old fashioned “pirate-ish” font, but I can’t remember what it was called …

By: james

james — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:45:20 +0000

yeah, well the font you mentioned DOES work – the MiscFixedSC613 font, it works fine, but the dead hand treasure map pirate font that I downloaded does not. They are both ttf (true type fonts) and both show up in word when I use that. I am think there must the be specification that a font must subscribe to in order to be used on a comand line rather than in a GUI app like MS Word. Not sure what that would be though …

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:28:55 +0000

Hmm. Should be standard Windows stuff. Check and see if the font is available in any other applications.

By: James

James — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:35:27 +0000

Hi Eric,

This is just what I have been looking for because I really like this cool pirate font and want to show off to my workmates -> being the coolest / geekiest putty user (I was the first to start using colours! )…..

But how do I get putty to find the font? – I put it into C:\windows\fontrs like you said but when I start putty it is not there?

Am I doing something wrong??