Set gui's font in win7

Question

For debian9, the setting in .vimrc take effect for gvim.

set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 14

For win7,the setting in _vimrc take no effect for gvim at all.
I open gvim in my win7,

:set guifont?

The result is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,but i find that the character inputed in my gvim in win7 is not Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,why? How to set gui's font in win7

Answer 1

See: :help guifont:

[...]

The font name depends on the GUI used.

[...]

For the Win32 GUI

• takes these options in the font name:>

  • hXX - height is XX (points, can be floating-point)
  • wXX - width is XX (points, can be floating-point)
  • b - bold
  • i - italic
  • u - underline
  • s - strikeout
  • cXX - character set XX. Valid charsets are: ANSI, ARABIC, BALTIC, CHINESEBIG5, DEFAULT, EASTEUROPE, GB2312, GREEK, HANGEUL, HEBREW, JOHAB, MAC, OEM, RUSSIAN, SHIFTJIS, SYMBOL, THAI, TURKISH, VIETNAMESE ANSI and BALTIC. Normally you would use "cDEFAULT".

  Use a ':' to separate the options.

• A '_' can be used in the place of a space, so you don't need to use backslashes to escape the spaces.

• Examples:

  :set guifont=courier_new:h12:w5:b:cRUSSIAN
  :set guifont=Andale_Mono:h7.5:w4.5
  

Try this:

set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h14

Note also:

For Win32, GTK, Motif, Mac OS and Photon:

 :set guifont=*

will bring up a font requester, where you can pick the font you want.

After doing so, you can check the output of :set guifont? again to see the correct format.

Answer 2

You're using the right command. You need to install the font in a way that is recognized by Windows itself and you need to specify the correct name. See :help guifont for the naming conventions.

Also, you can see all available fonts with :set guifont=*. This will open a standard font-chooser dialog.