Using variable-width font in Putty

Question

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?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '11 at 07:40

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.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 19 '14 at 14:19

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You can by changing the following registry value:

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

edited Dec 19 '14 at 14:19

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answered Dec 19 '14 at 14:00

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Using variable-width font in Putty

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