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My Coding Font and Colors

The subject often resurfaces amongst developers: What does your IDE look like? What font do you use? What color scheme? How do you format your code?

Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood started showing how their IDE look like, and I thought I'd join the club. I prefer a bitmap font, not affected by ClearType anti-aliasing. I do believe ClearType does a great job, but at smaller font sizes. For small fonts, I want the crispness of my LCD screen to show. At larger fonts, like Scott is using, I admit Consolas and Inconsolata are doing a great job, but at smaller sizes, ProggySquare (with slashed zero) is the best font around.

As for colors, I do prefer light text over a dark background, but black creates too much of a contrast. I prefer a grayish dark blue background. Also, I tend to use the same forecolor for many different elements. I can't stand the Christmas Tree IDE.

Finally, I'm a fan of spaces in parentheses, not around them. Enough words, here's a screenshot:

 

 

UPDATE: Check this post for a little refresh of the theme and to download my VSSETTINGS file.

 

Published Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:48 PM by slimcode
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slimCODE, aka Martin Plante said:

As if the current experience of trying to use Visual Studio .NET under Windows Vista wasn't so bad, it

February 8, 2007 11:14 AM
 

Barret said:

Nice layout man.  I copied your colors and I love it.  I hate the the "Christmas tree" IDE also, and this is exactly what I was looking for.

October 30, 2007 10:58 AM
 

slimcode said:

It's funny you just commented on this older post, as I've been tweaking my setup lately. When working on my laptop, with its 1280x960 resolution, I stick with the great ProggySquare font. But on my Vista desktop, as strange as it sounds, I switched back to Lucida Console. Neither Consolas, nor the other fonts currently getting some buzz, like Inconsolata, Monaco or Vera Sans Mono (a friend's favorite, hi Jacques!) are doing a better job in my mind as Lucida Console. Jacques and I talked about it lately, and we agree that it's also a question of getting used to. Working a few weeks with Vera or Consolas, I'm sure I'd praise it.

As for the color scheme, glad you like it! Should I post my .vssettings file?

October 30, 2007 9:17 PM
 

gabe said:

yes you should post your vssettings file

February 4, 2008 2:23 PM
 

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen said:

February 7, 2008 6:55 PM
 

Blogs said:

More and more I find myself "skinning and themeing" my Visual Studio development environment

February 7, 2008 7:22 PM
 

ASPInsiders said:

More and more I find myself "skinning and themeing" my Visual Studio development environment in order

February 7, 2008 7:43 PM
 

khalid said:

Can you just put vss setting file for this theme :)

February 8, 2008 2:40 AM
 

slimCODE, aka Martin Plante said:

With Scott's Visual Studio's theme rundown , I'm getting requests for my VS Settings file for my older

February 8, 2008 10:43 AM
 

SergioTarrillo's RichWeblog said:

Alguna vez leí en un artículo de Internet que un leer sobre un fondo negro cansa menos que leer sobre

April 2, 2008 2:29 AM
 

Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery : cooldezign said:

April 18, 2008 3:30 PM
 

KiNg.JiOnG said:

使用方法::(其实就是改变VSsettings)

在VS2005/VS2008上边打开工具-

August 29, 2008 5:37 AM
 

thinh said:

thanks

September 29, 2008 8:40 AM
 

真见 said:

ScottHanselman's

December 15, 2008 10:44 PM

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