Change default font in netbeans?

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Is it possible to change the default font in netbeans? The documentation says:

The font Monospaced is maped to different fonts on different systems. On Windows it is mapped to "Courier ", on Linux it is mapped to "Lucida Typewriter".

http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/editor_fonts_colors/Editor_fonts_and_colors.htm

I'm on windows and want to map Monospaced font to 'Consolas' instead of 'Courier'.

P.S. I know that fonts can easily be changed from options, but when I change it in this way, I can no longer use unicode characters. Guess I need to do what they call 'mapping' the monospaced font to other font.

Wikipedia says Consolas only has about half as many as Courier New, so that could be why. — Mechanical snail, Aug 18 '12 at 21:25
Neither Courier supports these characters. The documentation also says: _Monospaced also covers other characters from Unicode subset which are not included in Courier or Lucida_ — King Julien, Aug 18 '12 at 21:43
So as far as I can figure out they use courier for standard english alphabet and they also include other unicode characters from another source. — King Julien, Aug 18 '12 at 21:46
Sounds like font fallback only works with standard font aliases? Strange. — Mechanical snail, Aug 18 '12 at 22:46
On Linux you can change these font aliases by fiddling with fontconfig (add your alias to `/etc/fonts/conf.d/` with a high priority). I don't know how on Windows. — Mechanical snail, Aug 18 '12 at 22:46
I think this link can help you: http://askubuntu.com/questions/32624/ugly-fonts-in-netbeans-how-can-i-make-it-use-the-system-font — Arash Mousavi, Aug 21 '12 at 04:26
Funny almost 8 years later people are still trying to change the default font in netbeans :D — King Julien, May 13 '20 at 10:10

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 01 '18 at 07:22

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Tools > Options > Fonts and Colors

Set the category "Default", and to the right of that, the font you want to use.

If this does not fix it, try adding:

--laf Nimbus -J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd

or

-J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd --laf Metal

to the file : netbeans.conf. You can find it in $NETBEANS_HOME/etc/ folder. Make your application font smaller from system preferences.

edited Jun 01 '18 at 07:22

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answered Aug 30 '12 at 21:57

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Set my default font to consolas, tried to add both of the configuration lines but still when I try to type using unicode characters I get some unknown symbols instead... – King Julien Sep 01 '12 at 13:22

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '16 at 17:55

To change the font size outside of the editor you can configure by editing the Net Beans conf file, you can find it here: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0.2\etc\netbeans.conf

Then edit this line: netbeans_default_options="..."

by adding this at the end:

--fontsize 18

I hope it helps :-)

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '17 at 13:16

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Life becomes more easier now. Just from Tools menu choose Options and then follow steps on the following screen shot and take care with step 3 and 4 which they are making the default font for all languages:

answered Mar 17 '17 at 13:16

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 22 '14 at 18:33

I have a NetBeans plugin called 'UI-Editor' which allows you to customize virtually any Swing property, including font sizes, colors, and types. Go to Tools->Plugins and search for 'UI-Editor' or go here: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/55618/?show=true

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 06 '17 at 02:46

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also don't not forget to change the font to the one that support Arabic like Arial for example i am not sure of some one mention that i just tried it

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score -2 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 21 '12 at 16:57

As far as I can tell there's no way to do this. jEdit (http://jedit.org) also uses Swing and DOES do font substitution for all fonts - there's a "automatic font substitution" checkbox in Global Options > Text Area, along with a list of preferred fonts. But jEdit is otherwise not as capable as Netbeans.

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