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Change the font size in PuTTY
You spend a lot of time to working inside a remote SSH tunnel on a daily basis. And nothing is worse than trying to decipher the default colors against a black background in PuTTY. The default appearance of the PuTTY ap is 10-point Courier New font with white text on a black background.
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Customizing the font size in PuTTY
1. Open PuTTY and select Default Settings (which is usually highlighted anyway). Then click on Load.
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2. Select Appearance under Window section on the left pane then click on Change button on the right side.
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3. A new menu appears that allows you to change the font family, font style and the font size as you wish.
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4. After changing the font size and clicking on OK, you are returned to the PuTTY general configuration menu.
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5. Select Session again, then select Default Settings, then click on Save.
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Finally, in future PuTTY sessions, it loads this Saved Session named Default Settings again to have all the settings return to your preferred values.
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