Is there a way to change the environment font size in Visual Studio Code? Stuff like IntelliSense box, debug panel, file names, etc.

I know how to change the editor's font size but I cannot figure out how to change the environment font size. So I wonder if you can change it somehow.

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22 Answers

Currently it is not possible to change the font family or size outside the editor. You can however zoom the entire user interface in and out from the View menu.

Update for our VS Code 1.0 release:

A newly introduced setting window.zoomLevel allows to persist the zoom level for good! It can have both negative and positive values to zoom in or out.

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Just copy "editor.fontSize": 18 into your setting.json of the editor.

Pressing Control+Shift+P and then typing "settings" will allow you to easily find the user or workspace settings file.

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In Visual Studio Code, by pressing Ctrl+ and Ctrl- you can change the overall font size of the IDE. This helps faster than changing settings in every session. Hope it helps...

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Try playing around with a combination of the following user settings:

{ "editor.fontSize": 18, "window.zoomLevel": 1.5,
}

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As of mid 2017 To quickly get to the settings files press ctrl + shift + p and enter settings, there you will find the user settings and the workspace settings, be aware that the workspace settings will override the user settings, so it's better to use the latter directly to make it a global change (workspace settings will create a folder in your project root), from there you will have the option to add the option "editor.fontSize": 14 to your settings as a quick suggestion, but you can do it yourself and change the value to your preferred font size.

To sum it up:

1. ctrl + shift + p

2. select "user settings"

3. add "editor.fontSize": 14

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You can Zoom In and Zoom Out the entire user interface from the View menu.

Right now i'm using version 1.21.1 and there in view menu you can get the Zoom in and Zoom out option which are the 2nd and 3rd last options. You can do it by using Ctrl + + and Ctrl + -.

You can reset the zoom at any time by selecting Reset Zoom option.

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After Pressing Control+Shift+P as suggested by @Edwin:

1. Look for Workspace Settings:

2. Then "Place your settings in the file to the right to overwrite...default and user settings," or click the UserSettings tab to adjust the window.zoomLevel if that is the desired action.

According to the changelog of version 1.2, new commands were added to zoom in and out only the font but the entire UI.

Changelog:

Use the following keybindings to replace the default global zoom actions:

on macOS:

{ "key": "cmd+numpad_add", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn" },
{ "key": "shift+cmd+=", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn" },
{ "key": "cmd+=", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn" },
{ "key": "cmd+numpad_subtract", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut" },
{ "key": "shift+cmd+-", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut" },
{ "key": "cmd+-", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut" },
{ "key": "cmd+numpad0", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset" },
{ "key": "cmd+0", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset" },

on Windows and Linux:

{ "key": "ctrl+numpad_add", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn" },
{ "key": "shift+ctrl+=", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn" },
{ "key": "ctrl+=", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn" },
{ "key": "ctrl+numpad_subtract", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut" },
{ "key": "shift+ctrl+-", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut" },
{ "key": "ctrl+-", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut" },
{ "key": "ctrl+numpad0", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset" },
{ "key": "ctrl+0", "command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset" },

(VS Code 1.33.1 on Windows 7)

Zoom all (UI and editor): CTRL + +, CTRL + -.

Zoom editor: CTRL + Mouse Wheel.

See below how i fixed it.

As suggested by @Edwin: Pressing Control+Shift+P and then typing "settings" will allow you to easily find the user or workspace settings file.

My settings file is found here: "C:\Users\You_user\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json"

My file looks like this:

{ "editor.fontSize": 12, "editor.suggestFontSize": 6, "markdown.preview.fontSize": 0, "terminal.integrated.fontSize": 10, "window.zoomLevel": 0, "workbench.sideBar.location": "left", "editor.mouseWheelZoom": true
}

A Simple approach to change the Font Size in Visual Studio Work Environment :

Go To : File -> Preferences -> Settings OR Press CTRL+, i.e. CTRL + COMMA.

This will open settings.json.

You can see 3 tabs there :

1. User Settings
2. Workspace Settings
3. Folder Settings

Go to User Settings and Add this :

{
"editor.fontSize": 16
}

Now just save and close the file.

In above code, 16 represents the font size. Increase of Decrease as per your wish.

In Visual Studio Code, the font-size can be easily changed from the Settings tab.

The simplest way to do this is to press Ctrl + Shift + P and then type 'Settings'. This will show you a few results. Choose 'Settings(UI)'. The Settings tab will get opened in the editor. Now you can change the font settings from here. This will only affect the editor's font.

Or, you can also click on the settings icon on the left bottom of the window and search for font from there.

In order to change the font size of the entire environment, you may consider pressing ctrl++. This will work like zooming into the whole environment, resulting in an increased font-size.

I have mine set to "editor.fontSize": 12,

Save the file, you will see the effect right the way.

Enjoy !

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Press Ctrl, Shift, P at the same time, a menu will appear, search for Editor Zoom in. After selecting that, the font will get larger by some degree.

Repeat this until you achieve your desired font size.

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Took me ages to work out what I'd accidentally done when my code window went huge:

Zoom out = Ctrl + Shift + , (comma)

Zoom in = Ctrl + Shift + . (full stop/period)

Not actually an answer to the posted question at all but I think someone like me will end up here because of the symptoms!

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As of now (March 2018) & version 1.21.0, you can go to Settings, search for 'zoom' and change "editor.mouseWheelZoom": false which is false by default to true. This will allow to zoom in/out on VS Code using control button and mouse - ctrl + scrollUp/scrollDown. For changing the fontSize of the overall working space/screen of VS Code, refer to Alegozalves's answer above.

There are many options to change the font size in the Visual studio code(version:1.36.1), Editor

Option 1:

Go To: File > Preferences > Settings > select User tab > Text Editor > Font > Font Size

Font Size: Change font size in pixels as per your requirement

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Option 2:

Press Ctrl + P

Search: settings.json, Open file and add this line in settings.json file:

{ "editor.fontSize": 20
}

Note: Save file after changes

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Option 3:

Press Ctrl + Shift + P

Search: Editor Font Zoom In

• Just click on it, your font size will be increased

Search: Editor Font Zoom Out

• Just click on it, your font size will be decreased

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Press Ctrl and use the mouse wheel to zoom In or Out.

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1. Open VS Code
2. Type command CTRL + SHFT + P
3. Type Settings
4. Settings file will open.
5. Now under User > Text Editor > Font, find Font Size
6. Enter your desired font size

That's it.

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There is a setting window.zoom that can enlarge the entire window content including the top menus and side nav tree. Setting this to 1 on a 4k monitor makes the content similar to a 1080p monitor of the same physical size.

If you really want to change the environment's font, edit the css in

c:/Users/etech/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft%20VS%20Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.css

Just put at the end of the file your custom CSS :

body{ font-size : 15px !important
}

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On windows, in 2022 I will use,

CTRL + + to zoom in and CTRL + - to zoom out the environment.

File --> Preferences --> Settings --> User --> Font --> Font Size Enter the Font size. You can sync these settings with your Git Hub or Microsoft TFS.

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