Changing the code font and color in Visual Studio

Customizing the font and color in Visual Studio is not only extremely flexible, you will also find it very necessary if your monitor resolution is quite high or quite low.

Getting ready

Visual Studio is a highly customizable code editing tool. You might find the default fonts too small for your screen. You may want to change your code's font size and color. Or you may want to completely customize the coloration of keywords and the text background colors. The Fonts and Colors dialog box, which we'll show you how to use in this section, allows you to completely customize every aspect of the code editor's font and color.

How to do it...

  1. From within Visual Studio, go to Tools | Options…
  2. Select Environment ...

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