2011-12-22

Ubuntu-style Putty

Designing a custom font was a stroke of genius from the Ubuntu team.
It gave instant recognisability to the distribution and it boosted ergonomics as well.

I'm currently using the same font even on Windows in my Putty sessions:



The Ubuntu fonts can be downloaded from http://font.ubuntu.com/
Unzip and copy into the Windows fonts folder.
Set Putty to use "Ubuntu Mono 12" with the Antialiased flag.

Here's the reg file for the above configuration:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Default%20Settings]
"Font"="Ubuntu Mono"
"FontIsBold"=dword:00000000
"FontCharSet"=dword:00000000
"FontHeight"=dword:0000000c
"FontVTMode"=dword:00000004
"UseSystemColours"=dword:00000000
"TryPalette"=dword:00000000
"BoldAsColour"=dword:00000001
"Colour0"="187,187,187"
"Colour1"="255,255,255"
"Colour2"="45,15,44"
"Colour3"="85,85,85"
"Colour4"="0,0,0"
"Colour5"="0,255,0"
"Colour6"="0,0,0"
"Colour7"="85,85,85"
"Colour8"="187,0,0"
"Colour9"="255,85,85"
"Colour10"="0,187,0"
"Colour11"="85,255,85"
"Colour12"="187,187,0"
"Colour13"="255,255,85"
"Colour14"="0,150,187"
"Colour15"="85,170,255"
"Colour16"="187,0,187"
"Colour17"="255,85,255"
"Colour18"="0,187,187"
"Colour19"="85,255,255"
"Colour20"="187,187,187"
"Colour21"="255,255,255"
"BoldFont"=""
"BoldFontIsBold"=dword:01000000
"BoldFontCharSet"=dword:00000007
"BoldFontHeight"=dword:00000000
"WideFont"=""
"WideFontIsBold"=dword:00000003
"WideFontCharSet"=dword:00000000
"WideFontHeight"=dword:0000000a
"WideBoldFont"=""
"WideBoldFontIsBold"=dword:00000000
"WideBoldFontCharSet"=dword:00000000
"WideBoldFontHeight"=dword:343232e8
"ShadowBold"=dword:00000000
"ShadowBoldOffset"=dword:00000001
"FontQuality"=dword:00000003
"ANSIColour"=dword:00000001

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