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Generally speaking - most of the monospace fonts I see are totally fine and I really don't care about the differences between the 10 he mentioned as being good. But when I go to windows and run cmd.exe I'm blown away by just how ugly the font they use there is.


I'm blown away that you can change the font for cmd.exe, but you only get one other option: Lucida Console. Still, it beats "Raster Fonts".


You can actually add more fonts, though it requires editing the registry and doesn't work for all fonts, I think. It does let you at least get Consolas, which is good enough for the time I spend in cmd.

http://keznews.com/3308_Adding_fonts_to_cmd_exe


Or you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ and you get other nice features as well


http://www.hassings.dk/lars/fonts.html

Follow instructions, select 6x13. Problem solved.


On Windows 7, you get Consolas as well -- and you can always edit the registry, as skermes pointed out.




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