I am trying to add this font http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html to my visual studio. i have downloaded it and added it to the Windows/fonts directory. restarted the computer and yet i still cant find it on the fonts and colors settings.
Any solution ?
GDI+ doesn't play nicely with OpenType fonts, you will need to find a TTF version, how about this one: http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/inconsolata/?r=fffda675769720a297f4d239e7065f751bbe655f
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I've recently installed the Fira Code font for Visual Studio 2019, version 16.6.3
The issue that I have is that after I shut down my computer, the font won't load properly unless I close VS and re-install it (and, when I do that, Windows also tells me that the font is already installed and I have to confirm that I want to overwrite it) in order to get it to load properly.
The confusing thing about this issue is that even when the font doesn't load correctly (it loads the default font instead) it stil appears to be properly selected in Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts And Colors.
I solved it by installing the font for all the users, which can be achieved by simply left clicking the .ttf file and selecting the "Install for all users" option.
I found this question that is about enabling ligatures in Visual Studio, which appears to be automatic.
However, I don't like ligatures, so I was wondering if it is possible to disable them. I can't find anything in VS2017 or VS2019.
I also want to disable font ligatures in VS2017 today, then I found this link in MSDN community site. They say:
Currently, Visual Studio doesn’t have the ability to disable font ligatures in the editor, so the only option you currently have available is to chose a font that doesn’t provide ligatures.
I think they are foolish about this.
I ran into that issue in VS2022 aswell when tried to install Jetbrains Mono font. But it occured that jetbrains provides same font without ligatures, it's name is followed by 'NL'
Some time ago Microsoft created "Cascadia Mono" font, which is the same font as default in Visual Studio, but without ligatures.
You can download "Cascadia Mono" font from here:
https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases
Install this font on your machine, restart Visual Studio, select "Cascadia Mono" font, and you will achieve the same result as "disabling" ligatures in VS.
I installed (as MS recommend) a font and tried to assign it into 'Options/Environment/Fonts and Colors' but doesn't work.
Lucida Console font applied:
InputMonoCondensed font applied:
Restarted Visual Studio and my computer without success, what could be wrong?
Notes:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
VS: Community 2015 v14 Update 3
.NET Framework: v4.6
All were installed and updated into a new computer.
This is actually a known issue documented on Input download website http://input.fontbureau.com/workarounds/
Here is the relevant part:
In certain configurations of Visual Studio (2010–2013), the default Input installation will not display at all, and instead you’ll see Courier. A workaround is to customize and download a four-style family (which will appear in your font menu as “Input”), rather than selecting from the whole family. Some users reported that they had to reboot their system for the change to take effect.
Solution is mentioned, on the download page http://input.fontbureau.com/download/ chose "Customize your download" option and select "Download a custom four-style family", based on InputMonoCondensed.
Install this font after downloading, and select the font named Input (just Input, not InputMono or InputMonoCondensed for instance) into Visual Studio options:
That's it!
Now you can edit using Input font, that's actually what I personally use.
Visual Studio Color Theme Editor is an excellent extension for Visual Studio 2010 that can be used to try and apply different themes on the IDE. The theme only changes the chrome or the windowing area of the IDE.
To change the display of code one still has to play around with the settings in the Fonts and Colors dialog or import settings from a .vssettings file. (A variety of styles are available at StudioStyles).
All editors now allow the programmer to try or switch between different styles on the code with a click (like the gorgeous Sublime Text). Is there a Visual Studio extension or external tool that makes it easy to apply and play around with different styles? If not, is there some trick to try or switch between different styles with ease? I find that going through the Import Settings dialog is quite onerous.
Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension now allows (from v2.3) to change Font colors using styles (include your own styles). Exactly what do you need.
Version history
2.3 Added support for merging Fonts & Colors customizations with a theme
Update to Visual Studio 2012 and you be able to use either Light or Dark theme. What's is really cool.
Other good suggestion is to check http://studiostyl.es/ - This website provide many variations of color and fonts to use with your Visual Studio (but by now that compatibility is just with vs2005, vs2008 and vs2010)
Is there any way to make font smoothing more MacOS like in Visual Studio 2010? I used to do that with GDI++ in VS 2008, but obviously that won't work in new Visual Studio. Is it possible to tweak WPF font-smoothing manually?
If anyone doesn't know about GDI++ you can get it here. It is highly configurable, but the basic settings make fonts look like they do on MacOS, which is much better when you have white text on dark background.
Here's a link on some options to try:
Turning off ClearType, Adjust font smoothing on OS level, change the environment font in VS. Consolas font was an option they recommended in beta.
Here's a blog post on improving WPF font clarity.
There's a Visual Studio extension called Text Sharp that lets you change the font smoothing settings.