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RonC
RonC

Reputation: 33771

How to easily change Visual Studio 2022 Editor Font and Colors to match VS 2019

I appreciate that the Visual Studio team is continually trying to improve the VS environment for developers. However, I find the fonts and colors used in the VS 2022 editor to be too loud and mentally taxing. I'd very much like to change the VS 2022 text editor fonts and colors to match what I'm use to in VS 2019.

Unfortunately it's not a simple as going into Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors and changing the font from Cascadia Code back to Consolas. Sure one can do that, and that's a step forward but the font coloring is then to light. This is apparently because the font colors in general were lightened in VS 2022 to partially compensate for the fact that Cascadia Code is a very heavy font. This of course makes sense, IF you want to keep Cascadia Code as the editor font. But I don't. I want to switch back to Consolas, and I'd like the font coloring that VS 2019 used as well.

So anybody know an easy way to get the VS 2022 editor to use the text color coding that VS 2019 uses?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 12445

Answers (2)

AV2000
AV2000

Reputation: 498

I was able to figure it out in my VS 2022 environment. Font now looks identical to my VS 2019 IDE.

VS 2022 > Tools > Options > Environment > Font and Colors > Change font to "Consolas" size 10.

Upvotes: 8

Ghost of Guest
Ghost of Guest

Reputation: 31

If you were using the dark theme in VS 2019, you can install this port: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.DarkTheme2019, works great for me. Unfortunately it doesn't look like anyone ported the light theme.

Upvotes: 3

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