Changing your colors in Visual Studio.NET - Black versus White September 7, '06 Comments [31] Posted in Musings Sponsored By UPDATE: http://studiostyles.info/ for a great growing community of Visual Studio Styles and Themes. You can create, import and export themes in your browser! I run my Visual Studio.NET with Consolas 15pt and have since I discovered Consolas. I like to run at a big(ger) font for a few reasons. First, it looks best at 15pt. 16pt? Crap. 13pt? Please. I also run it with a white (paper-like) background and the default colors. I also tend to run FullScreen with SHIFT-ALT-ENTER. More and more though I hear that folks are vibing on the black background again. Personally, I've always found the black blackground folks to be a little creepy - just a little too black t-shirt, if you know what I mean. Lately, though, it seems, that folks I respect have been trying the black background thing. A while back Atwood blogged about this. There's a lovely theme for Mac folks running TextMate using the Monaco Font by this fellow at Vibrant Ink. Folks with "TextMate Envy" can get a free Monaco Font for Windows here. Since that was so easy to find, I figured I'd try black background world also. But not just "switch to black background," no, no, that'd be too simplistic. I need to pump up the color on the foreground as well. Now, that doesn't look too bad. Here's what I did from Tools|Options inside Visual Studio.NET Changed the font to Monaco in Environment|Fonts and Colors under "Text Editor" Changed: Plain Text - White Line Numbers - Silver Comments - 213,0,213 (Purpley) Identifier - 253,223,57 (Mustardy) Keyword - 244,122,0 (Orangey) Operator - White String - Lime UserTypes - 179,179,0 (Mustardy) I think I'll leave it like this for a while and see what happens. Feel free to post links to a screenshot of your colors and fonts in your editor in the comments. Put the link to your screenshot in the Home Page field in the comment and your name in the comments will automatically turn into a hyperlink. Now, gray background people? Well, they're just freaks. ;) « Grandpa | Blog Home | Accessing EXIF Photo Data from JPEGs wit... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By