Legacy Windows: Why are console windows limited to Lucida Console and raster fonts? – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/15
I think this holds to or maybe even including Windows Vista: [Wayback] Why are console windows limited to Lucida Console and raster fonts? – The Old New Thing
The workaround is in KB247815.
Luckily, many old KB articles are still in the BetaArchive (see the blog post Source: Missing a KB article? Try the Microsoft KB Archive – BetaArchive Wiki last month), including [Wayback/Archive.is] Microsoft KB Archive/247815 – BetaArchive Wiki
Windows NT 4 / Windows 2000: Necessary criteria for fonts to be available in a command window
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An unsupported work around is available by adding the following font specific entry:
Add a String Value
Name=00
Data=“Font Name” (without “”)Into the following registry:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFontThe name needs to be incrimented with “
0” for each additional font. The Data entry needs to match the font’s entry in the following registry location:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
Via: [Wayback/Archive.is] Hack does not show up in the font list for Windows command-prompt · Issue #147 · source-foundry/Hack
–jeroen
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