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How to disable font smoothing in Visual Studio?

How to disable font smoothing in a Visual Studio text editor? On some machines that I use, this works, but not on most of them.

The text in the editor on the left is not very sharp. But the font is on Windows.

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For me, it helped me switch to the “Console” font, and then return to “Courier New” in “Tools-> Options-> Environment-> Fonts and colors. Don't forget to click“ OK ”after switching to“ Console ”.

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There is an extension called Text Sharp that allows you to completely disable font smoothing (ClearType) for Visual Studio:

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7aafa2ea-8c54-4da8-922e-d26bf018514d

I use this in conjunction with Source Code Pro for very readable code.

Well, the characters are at least readable. The code itself may be different. :)

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According to blogs.msdn.com and this SuperUser post , you may need to disable it in many places, but two are enough for VStudio:

  • Control Panel> Display> ClearType Text Settings
  • Control Panel> System> Customizing Windows Appearance and Performance> Visual Effects> Smooth Edges on Screen Fonts

Do not use Consolas as it always uses ClearType, as Alex K. noted in the comments.

They prefer the Lucida Console , which is a fixed font (they are shown in bold in the list of VStudio fonts in the menu "Tools"> "Options"> "Environment"> "Fonts and Colors") and do not seem to suffer from ClearType effects or smooth edges.

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