Which font is used in Visual Studio Code Editor and how to change fonts

Question

I tried Visual Studio Code editor https   code visualstudio com   which is recently announced at build  I tried it on Windows and Ubuntu  I can see that default font of Visual Studio Code Editor is not consolas which prefer on my code editors    So which is default font of Visual Studio Code Editor in All the environments Ubuntu  MAC OS and windows   And how can I change it

User · Answer

On my windows 8 1 machine default VS Code font is Consolas  but you can easily change the font in File- Preferences- User Preferences  setting json file will be opened alongside with default settings file  from where you can take syntax and names for settings properties and set your own ones in settings json

User · Answer

The default fonts are different across Windows  Mac  and Linux  As of VSCode 1 15 1  the default font settings can be found in the source code   const DEFAULT WINDOWS FONT FAMILY    Consolas    Courier New    monospace   const DEFAULT MAC FONT FAMILY    Menlo  Monaco    Courier New    monospace   const DEFAULT LINUX FONT FAMILY      Droid Sans Mono      Courier New    monospace    Droid Sans Fallback

User · Answer

Open vscode   Press ctrl    The setting is  editor fontFamily    On Linux to get a list of fonts  and their names which you have to use  run this in another shell   fc-list   awk    1    1    cut -d  -f1   sort  uniq   You can specify a list of fonts  to have fallback values in case a font is missing

User · Answer

Go to Preferences   User Settings   Alternatively  Ctrl       Cmd     on macOS   Then you can type inside the JSON object any settings you want to override  User settings are per user  You can also configure workspace settings  which are for the project that you are currently working on   Here s an example      Controls the font family   editor fontFamily    Consolas       Controls the font size   editor fontSize   13     Useful links    Default Settings

User · Answer

Since the VisualStudio has been updated now  2019   You can try on this method    Go to File- Preference- Settings  Go to Workspace tab and then Text Editor- Font Under Font-Family form  put the font-family names you want to use separated by a comma For e g I have put these fonts in my Workspace  Click to see my Workspace setting

User · Answer

Go to Tools- Options on menu on main window  Under Environment container  you can see Fonts and Colors  You can select font and color which you want

User · Answer

For windows please follow these steps Goto -  gt  File - gt  preferences - gt  settings OR press CTRL       for windows only  you ll see settings page there find text editor option tab on left side then click on   Font    then add any valid font family name there which you want to apply to vscode

User · Answer

In VSCode if  editor fontFamily      is blank  the font size will NOT work  Set a font family to change the size     editor fontFamily    Verdana   or  editor fontFamily    Monaco    Really  use whatever font family you like    Then  editor fontSize   16  should work

User · Answer

In the default settings  VS Code uses the following fonts  14 pt  in descending order    Monaco Menlo Consolas  Droid Sans Mono   Inconsolata   Courier New  monospace  fallback      How to verify  VS Code runs in a browser  In the first version  you could hit F12 to open the Developer Tools  Inspecting the DOM  you can find a  containing several s that make up that line of code  Inspecting one of those spans  you can see that font-family is just the list above

User · Answer

On Windows  the default settings are as follow  I never installed Monaco nor Menlo          editor fontFamily    Consolas        editor fontSize   14       editor lineHeight   19     Settings fontSize to 12 and lineHeight to 16 closely approximate Visual Studio set to Consolas with 10pt size  I could not get an exact match  VS Code font is slightly bolder  but close enough

User · Answer

Another way to determine the default font is to start typing  editor fontFamily  in settings and see what auto-fill suggests  On a Mac  it shows by default    editor fontFamily    Menlo  Monaco   Courier New   monospace    which confirms what Andy Li says above

[visual-studio-code] Which font is used in Visual Studio Code Editor and how to change fonts?

Examples related to visual-studio-code