Changing Console Fonts

Published 12 February 07 09:13 AM | john 

Got a useful link passed to me internally last week on changing your console window fonts from the standard raster and Lucida Console ones.  What you can do is add your favorite TrueType fonts in this window (see the side image).  To do this navigate to the following key:

WINDOWS 5.00 Version Editor Registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont
"00"="ProFontWindows"

If you want to add more fonts, use "000", "0000" and so on.  I'm using Vista and I didn't have to reboot my machine for the new fonts to appear in the next console window that I started.  My favorite programming font by far is ProFontWindows.  I strongly recommend you give it a try.

I get a some aliasing artifacts when using ProFontWindows although ClearType isn't as bad as other anti-aliasing technologies for this. Amazingly applications like edit.com still work too.  If you are not an old time MS-DOS programmer (like, huh-hm, me), you might not even know that edit.com exists.  Go ahead, try running it right now.

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# The Director of Random Technologies said on July 23, 2007 4:01 PM:

While I haven't been posting much here, I have been posting pretty regularly over on my main development

# Noticias externas said on July 23, 2007 5:02 PM:

While I haven't been posting much here, I have been posting pretty regularly over on my main development

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