Consolas is a monospaced typeface, commonly available in Microsoft Office packages and the Mac OS X text editor BBEdit.
Questions tagged [consolas]
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Increased line height for Consolas font in Eclipse
Many people are using Consolas for their primary programming font but unfortunately there is no way to change line height in Eclipse so it looks kinda ugly as it is shown below:
I was wondering if there is anyone who solved this by adding some…
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What is a good programming font that looks good through Remote Desktop?
I guess I've just gotten spoiled with Consolas working on my local development machine. But at work we do a lot of development remotely via Remote Desktop, where any fonts requiring ClearType look awful.
I mean, look at this:
Normally I'm not a big…
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How can I make the font rendering in VSCode for MacOS looks exactly the same like VSCode for Windows?
Somewhat the opposite of this question.
I don't like how fonts are rendered in VSCode for Mac. To me, the lack of contrast gets in the way, since I don't have good vision, the letters get a little scrambled because of the lack of contrast. I can…
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Is it possible to coax Visual Studio 2008 into using italics for comments?
I'm quite used to my IDE setup in Delphi 7, where I have my comments rendered in italics.
This doesn't appear to be possible in VS2008. There's only an option for bold font, not italics.
Is there some kind of registry hack or font magic I can…
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Graphic symbols not showing in Consolas font in Sublime Text 3 on Windows 10
Some graphic symbols not showing in Consolas font in Sublime Text 3 on Windows 10.
For example: ◀
Other UTF-8 extended glyphs, like ñ, áéíóú works.
Screencap:
The triangle shows in all other fonts.
I checked the versión of my Consoles font files…
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Detecting ClearType-optimized fonts
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Is there a way to check if a given font is one of Microsoft's ClearType-optimized fonts?
I guess I could simply hard-code the list of font names, since it's a relatively short list, but that seems a bit ugly. Would the font names be the…
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How to enable monospaced Test Explorer output?
Is there a way to enable monospaced fonts like Consolas for output of Test Explorer in Visual Studio other than aligning entire UI through Environment setting?
Just want to print a fine looking table in output but always get aligned garbage. Setting…
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Consolas font missing in VS2017 Win 7
I am working with Win 10 and Win 7.
On both I use the newest version of MSVC 2017.
While working on the Win 10 machine, everything works fine and I can use/select the Consolas font.
When working on the Win 7 machine, everything also works fine, but…
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Consolas font too thin
When I use my other computer the consolas font is appearing way thinner than it used to be. Here are 2 images to show the differences:
and
I tried changing the fontWeight and size in my text editors but it still look different.
(It tried…
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Some characters of the Consola font are rendered twice their height
Does anyone know why is it that the ASCII characters ░, ▒ and ▓ are rendered with twice their supposed height (under some applications)?
Microsoft Word appears to render them correctly but Visual Studio, for example, renders them incorrectly.
See…
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visual studio's font is squished vertically
I'm apparently extremely picky/pedantic. But something happened and now my font is being squished by 1-3 pixels and it is driving me NUTS!
I know that there is a power productivity tool that will vertically shrink "unimportant lines" (i.e. lines…
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