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Trivikram
Trivikram

Reputation: 851

Using variable-width font in Putty

VT100-style terminal handling deals with fixed-width fonts.

Is it possible to use variable-width font like Comic Sans MS in Putty on Windows? If yes, how can it be done?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1692

Answers (2)

user4378159
user4378159

Reputation: 1

You can by changing the following registry value:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Default%20Settings\Font

Upvotes: 0

ak2
ak2

Reputation: 6778

No. PuTTY fundamentally assumes evenly sized character cells in a regular grid and hence requires a fixed-width font. (Well, actually dual-width, because double-width characters are needed for East Asian languages.)

I'm not aware of a terminal that does allow proportional fonts. Perhaps there is one out there, but of course terminal applications also assume a regular grid of character cells, so I'm not sure how useful it would be.

Upvotes: 1

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