Adding fonts to cmd.exe
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 15.8.2007
Recommended: Click here to check for outdated driversBe default, the properties on a cmd.exe window allow you to select either Raster Fonts or Lucida Console. You can add other monospace fonts to the list via the registry.
In regedit, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ Console\TrueTypeFont
Notice that Lucida Console is already under this key with a name of "0".
Add a new sting value with the name "00" (yep, that's the required name) and set the data to the name of a monospace font already installed in your C:\Windows\Fonts folder. In this example, I added the Consolas font. It seems that additional entries require names "000", "0000", etc. Names like "1" and "2" don't work. For Pete's sake, why?
Open up a new cmd window, right-click on the system menu, select Properties | Font and there is the newly added font.
I did this because I wanted a more readable font for my PowerShell window, since I've been spending some time staring at it.
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whatever font i choose it still displays lucidia console.
all i see is "lucida console" and "raster fonts" as options.
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this doesn't seem to work in vista
By Pepper on 16.08.2007 - 00:08