The update for Visual Studio 17.4 has changed the font in the text editor, so that it is very thin and a bit of a strain on the eyes to the read. How can you change this back, short of rolling back the update?
Please note that I've searched a little bit for this, and I see the following setting:
But I have no idea what to set this to. People have mentioned the Consolas font on one or more other posts, but that doesn't seem to match what was there before. I've tried checking Bold. Etc.
I just need it back to the "normal Visual Studio font" that was there before the update to 17.4, which has enough thickness in the letters that it's not uncomfortable to read.
Happened to me too, and let me say that the "new" font is pretty ugly compared to the original one that was Cascadia Mono SemiBold. Also uncheck bold if was checked and the size should be to 10.
(Sadly, in my case, it is no more present in the fonts list. Maybe this is the reason why it was set back to default. But Cascadia Code SemiBold should be 99,9% similar)
In this case, you can download Cascadia Mono Releases and install it again (?) in your system.
I also had issues with the font, installing other fonts didn't help. I installed the Text Sharp addon and enabled ClearType rendering which seemed to fix the font trouble I was having.
Edit: After more investigation, Visual studio has settings for text rendering thus disabling the addon and setting the Text rendering method to ClearType gives me back the original font:
And it seems like changing the Text Formatting method to Display instead of Ideal gives me the original issue I had.
And I also had to download Cascadia Mono to get the Cascadia Code font but without the ligatures (i.e. not changing != to an = with a line through it)
Apparently there was a bug in the installer that incorrecly uninstalled the fonts during update (17.4.4 release notes)
"Addressed an issue when Cascadia Code and Cascadia Mono font gets
uninstalled during Visual Studio update process."
It is said to be fixed in 17.4.4
with the note that updating from previous version to 17.4.4 may experience the issue, but that it will not happen with future updates (e.g. 17.4.4 -> 17.4.5.)
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(I'm using a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) Monterey v12.5)
I was trying to test different font settings and I came up messing my "Fixed-width font".
The default is "Custom" and once I changed it to other fonts it just disappears in the drop-down list.
I figured out "Custom" font should be Courier New with bold font weight.
I have been googling to see if there is any way to restore it to the default but not quite getting the answer.
Reinstalling Chrome might be one of the methods but it takes me long time to restore other settings. I would like to know if there is other way before trying reinstall.
default fixed-width font
I just found the way to solve my own problem.
What I've done is:
"Inspect" the drop-down list option
Change the element DOM "Courier New" -> "Courier"
Select any other font once and change back to Courier (that has been just changed from "Courier")
The original font should come back.
Hope this help someone who has the same problem as mine.
I downloaded & installed Visual Studios 2022. After creating a new project, and playing with the IDE for some time, I noticed that my font size was set to bold everywhere in the editor. Keywords, operators, punctuation, strings, variables, functions, classes, everything! Obviously I tried to change the size of the font, but it always reverts back to being bold.
Did I do something to cause this? How can I change it to not use bold font everywhere?
This is due to Microsoft changing the default font in Visual Studio 2022 from Consolas to Cascadia Code: a font which is designed to make text easier to read for people with disabilities like Character Dysmorphia or Dyslexia. You can change this back to "Consolas", the VS 2019 font by going to
Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > "Show settings for: Text Edit" > Font: "Consolas"
SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF ISSUES THAT CAUSE THE FONT TO RENDER OVERLY BOLD
I know that this answer isn't as popular as the other answer, but there was more to this problem than just changing the font. Originally, I tried changing the font, and it didn't work. It turned out, I had somehow turned on an option called "Windows High Contrast" which renders the font as an "ANSI Standardized Terminal Emulators" where there is an option of font that is not only more saturated & brighter, but bolder as well. Only then did changing the font back to the Original Microsoft Consoles font provide the experience I had expected.
Even Here the Story Doesn't End
I later found out about a feature called Power-lines, which is a really awesome looking feature, and provides a great command-line experience. And Cascadia Code supports Power-lines, Consoles does not.
Also I have to read code in a foreign language occasionally, and Slavic/Asian Languages render very nicely in Cascadia Code. So after over 6 months of grappling with fonts. I found that Cascadia Code actually has a variable font-weight, such that 300 and 400 are valid weights, but so 350, or 565 (too bold).
So for me, what worked, was to change Cascadia Codes weight to 350. Its actually kind of cool to be able to pick a font's boldness using a dynamic weight, rather than being restricted to increments of 100.
Tools
Options
Environment
Fonts and Colors
Text Edit
Font Weight: 350
Image Showing Windows Terminal w/ Power Lines Support
I like a dark background when coding and have customised it to a scheme that suits me. However each time I start VS some colours are wrong. To fix this I have to go to "Tools\Options\Fonts and Colours", click on "Display items" and click OK. This fixes it for that session but the next time I start up VS the colours are wrong again.
Clearly the colour scheme is remembered because I don't have to set them again, just having to go through the above process. Is there any way to fix this problem so that I get the correct colour scheme the first time I start VS?
The problem seems to have disappeared. I don't know exactly what did it. Our MSDN license came through and I reinstalled Expression Blend (which might have updated some files for VS and we also got a licensed version of Resharper (I had a trial one only till then and downloaded a slightly newer version after we got the license).
I use a custom color scheme in Visual Studio (black background, gray text, etc.). There a few settings that refuse to change, however. For example, when cursoring through the markup for an aspx page, the current tag defaults to black text, which doesn't work well on my black background. I've previously changed the appropriate setting to a "visible" color. In fact, to fix it, all I have to do is open the Options window, check and uncheck the Bold setting on Plain Text and hit OK, and now all my chosen settings are properly loaded. If I open a new session though, I have to go through these steps again. There are only a few settings where I notice this behavior (the Read-Only Region is another one), but it's annoying to have to do a dummy option change to get them to kick in. Has anyone seen this behavior before, and does anyone have a fix/workaround?
UPDATE: Found an interesting fix. I still don't know what the root cause is (probably some corruption as #sliderhouserules suggessts), but I've got a quicker way to fix it than using Tools | Options | Fonts and Colors. I simply exported my current color settings and created a macro to load them in:
Public Sub ImportColors()
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Tools.ImportandExportSettings", "-import:""C:\Documents and Settings\gregf\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings\FontsAnColors_Exported-2008-12-05.vssettings""")
End Sub
I then mapped that macro to a button on my toolbar. Now I have a one-click fix whenever my colors go awry. Not ideal, but much less painful now.
Sounds to me like you may have some corruption in your VS install or something (IE you need to reinstall VS). This doesn't sound like a bug, and you'd be fishing in the dark trying to repair your registry or whatever config files are involved in setting and storing these options for VS.
I imported my old fonts and colors settings under environment, and my code looks the way I like it, but I don't see where to change the look of the blue border surrounding it.
If anyone knows where this is, please help me complete my usual post-install pimp my IDE routine...
Install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378
You cannot - there simply isnt any support for that. As MicTech said, this might appear in teh next version, or perhaps even the next SP for VS2010. Why? because it's not that hard, now that they've rewritten it in WPF (its not the WPF that makes it easier, its the rewritten architecture).