SSMS: where is Fixedsys font?

• SQL Guy 1

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  May 8, 2014 at 9:21 am

  #286593

  Just installed 2012 and wanted to set query text font to fixedsys but could not find it in drop-down.

  Is it my installation bad or they dropped it from SSMS 2012? Or can I alter setting file or Registry to get it back?

  Thanks

• spaghettidba

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  May 9, 2014 at 2:20 am

  #1712076

  I checked my SSMS 2014 and I don't have that font.

  I think that only "modern" fonts (truetype and cleartype) are in the list and only a small subset of "legacy" fonts are allowed (the ones in bold).

  However, Fixedsys is one of the ugliest fonts in history and you should only be happy to see it going away. 🙂

  -- Gianluca Sartori