Visual Studio also includes features to help people who have limited dexterity to write. More accessibility features in Visual Studio

For more information about this forum and how it works, see the Suggest a feature page. If there is an accessibility option for colors or fonts that you think might be useful but isn't currently available in Visual Studio, please let us know by selecting Suggest a feature in the Visual Studio Developer Community. Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and colors.įrom the Font dropdown list, select either the Cascadia Code font or the Cascadia Mono font you want, and then select OK. Here's how to toggle between the Cascadia fonts: Notice that the last line of text in the Cascadia Code screenshot shows how the space between duplicate characters is reduced, which also makes them easier to read. The following screenshot shows an example of the Cascadia Code font, where the same series of characters shown previously are now converted to coding ligatures, or glyphs. The following screenshot shows an example of the default Cascadia Mono font and lists a series of characters, to include mathematical symbols, that you might find yourself using while you code.

Coding ligatures, or glyphs, make it easier for people to cognitively associate the meaning behind them. Not only are both of these fonts easier to read, but the Cascadia Code font also includes coding ligatures that turn a sequence of characters into a glyph. The new Cascadia Code font includes Cascade Mono, which is the default font in Visual Studio 2022.

You can choose to use a high-contrast color theme for all the apps and UI on a computer, or an extra-contrast color theme for Visual Studio only.

Cascadia Code also includes coding ligatures.

You can use the Cascadia Code font, which adds more weight to the proportions of letters, numerals, and characters to help disambiguate them.

In a neurodiverse world, we want to support our different learners and low-vision users by offering the following font options and color themes:

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