Increase font size of putty

Question

I am using putty for remote login in Linux in Ubuntu. The font size of terminal is very small. How can I increase it's font size.

Answer 1

• Putty configuration
• Window
• Appearance
• Font Settings
• Font
• Change
• Size: pick the smallest one possible, which is 8 for me
• Go back to "Sessions", select a "saved session" and click "Save". Terrible interface design!
  • https://serverfault.com/questions/12295/how-to-make-putty-settings-persistent
  • https://serverfault.com/questions/52068/is-there-a-way-to-permanently-set-the-font-and-window-size-in-putty

I wish I could go even smaller a bit, but it is already a huge improvement.

Also consider using MobaXterm instead of Putty: Can I access Ubuntu from Windows remotely? It is almost inevitable.

Tested on Putty 0.70, Windows 10 local, Ubuntu 16.04 remote.

Answer 2

The setup is somewhat different if you using Putty on Ubuntu.

Go to Fonts under Window, and change the Font used for ordinary text. Usually it's set to a default font by the server.

Here, you can select a font you want and update the preferred font size.