Set Up Your Colors in PuTTY

Pick a palette

Choose a TerminalPalette theme and keep its RGB values handy.

┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ Default Foreground            │
│                               │
│ Red        59                 │
│ Green      58                 │
│ Blue       55                 │
└───────────────────────────────┘

Cape Cod Morning — Default Foreground 59, 58, 55

There is nothing to convert. The numbers on TerminalPalette are the numbers you enter into PuTTY.

Open your PuTTY session

Open PuTTY and select the saved session you want to change.

┌──────── PuTTY Configuration ────────┐
│                                     │
│ Saved Sessions                      │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────┐   │
│ │ production-server             │   │
│ └───────────────────────────────┘   │
│                                     │
│             [ Load ]                │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Select the session and click Load.

Go to Window → Colours

In PuTTY’s left menu:

Session
│
├── Window
│   ├── Appearance
│   ├── Behaviour
│   ├── Translation
│   └── Colours  ←
│
└── Connection

Select Colours.

This is where PuTTY stores the terminal colors.

Enter the RGB values

Start with Default Foreground.

Then do Default Background.

Then Cursor Colour.

For each one, copy the three numbers from TerminalPalette:

┌──────── Modify Colour ────────┐
│                               │
│ Red:      [  59 ]             │
│ Green:    [  58 ]             │
│ Blue:     [  55 ]             │
│                               │
└───────────────────────────────┘

Default Foreground for Cape Cod Morning — 59, 58, 55. The other two roles use their own values.

Make sure Use system colours is turned off, or Windows may override the colors you entered.

Save it

This part matters.

Return to Session in PuTTY.

Window → Colours
       ↓
    Session
       ↓
     SAVE

Select the saved session you loaded earlier and click Save.

The next time you load that session, your colors come back with it.

The faster way

Every theme has a .reg file you can download and double-click. It creates a PuTTY session with the colors already set. The manual steps above are here for when you would rather not import anything, or you are updating a session you already use.

Done

That’s the whole process:

PICK A PALETTE
      ↓
LOAD YOUR SESSION
      ↓
WINDOW → COLOURS
      ↓
ENTER THE RGB VALUES
      ↓
SAVE THE SESSION
      ↓
$ _

Nine numbers and a PuTTY session that looks the way you want it. If you would rather skip the typing, download the .reg file from any theme.