The update for Visual Studio 17.4 has changed the font in the text editor, so that it is very thin and a bit of a strain on the eyes to the read. How can you change this back, short of rolling back the update?

Please note that I've searched a little bit for this, and I see the following setting:

But I have no idea what to set this to. People have mentioned the Consolas font on one or more other posts, but that doesn't seem to match what was there before. I've tried checking Bold. Etc.

I just need it back to the "normal Visual Studio font" that was there before the update to 17.4, which has enough thickness in the letters that it's not uncomfortable to read.

CodePudding user response：

Happened to me too, and let me say that the "new" font is pretty ugly compared to the

Edit: After more investigation, Visual studio has settings for text rendering thus disabling the addon and setting the Text rendering method to ClearType gives me back the original font:

And it seems like changing the Text Formatting method to Display instead of Ideal gives me the original issue I had.

And I also had to download Cascadia Mono to get the Cascadia Code font but without the ligatures (i.e. not changing != to an = with a line through it)