How to add fonts in cygwin mintty

Question

I wish to use additional fonts in mintty, I want to add Monaco font to my cygwin terminal. While mintty does help me to customise fonts and appearance. I cannot get to use additional fonts. I added Monaco from internet to my Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts folder and it's usable in wordpad and word but not in mintty.

Answer 1

This is easy, but you cannot use the mintty UI to change it. Instead, create a file /etc/minttyrc or edit the file ~/.minttyrc.

Set the font (and other settings) there. Check the man page for complete list of settings.

Font=Monaco
FontHeight=12

You can find the available font names in the standard Windows font dialog in the config panel.