Change fonts in the interactive window

[xq114]

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.33.1
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.3.6558 (8 April 2019)
• OS and version: Windows 10 v1809
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.7.1 Anaconda
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): conda

Expected behaviour

The font in the code cell seems good, but in the output cell it's really ugly. I wish it could be changed by myself, or set to default Consolas.

Actual behaviour

[wj-c]

indeed should be prettier, it's a huge part of productivity

[ghost]

And here is another reason why being able to change fonts/font-size in Python Interactive Window is so important.

When using some other languages (such as Chinese) in vs code on a 100% scaling (or lower) display, text rendering is intolerably bad.

As you can see, the hinting is gone, and Header 5 & 6 is just too small to be good to read.

In contrast, the same code & preview on a 200% scaling display looks like this:

Which is a lot better.

While this is the same problem in vs code markdown preview for Chinese character, users can have a work-around by changing the markdown preview font by inserting "markdown.preview.fontFamily": "\"Sarasa UI SC\"" in settings.json, but I can't do this anymore in Python Interactive Window for there is no option to change fonts for it.

The font I use to improve text-rendering for Chinese character on 100% scaling display or lower is Sarasa Gothic.

Great appreciation for your work & if this can be fixed, vs code + Python Interactive can be one step closer to The Perfect Data Science Tool in my mind.

[guihigashi]

I've noticed the input cells and window(type code here) are not using the editor font family and size, i've changed the defaults to Fira Code 12 and it seems to be rendering Consolas. The output cells are using another monospaced font.

source file:

python interactive:

PS: Like @KasperLXK, i think this setup can be the perfect tool.

[Thinking2018]

I wander no how can I change the font size in python interactive window.
The default fontsize for python interacitve window seems too small to me.
Changing fontsize in the editor seems not work in python interactive window.

[spencerwooo]

Any progress?

[greazer]

This issue fell through our cracks somehow without us responding. Sorry! Looking at it now, it's a good suggestion and one we will consider. It's actually a dupe of 4042, but since there's more upvotes, I'm going to keep this one and add it to our list of known Interactive Window improvements .

[karthiknadig]

Closing this since this is transferred over to the jupyter extension.