Line height and font size are too large by default

• VSCode Version: 1.10.2
• OS Version: win10 x64 My monitor native resolution is 1920x1200

When opening any file in VSCode, it shows only 56 lines at any time. I feel that the current line height and font size are too much by default.

For reference:

Sublime Text 3: 71 lines 
 Notepad++ 6.9: 65 lines
      gVim 7.4: 66 lines 
  UltraEdit 23: 67 lines

In contrast, Atom 1.15 displays even less: 49 lines

By default VSCode has in its settings:

"editor.fontSize":  14,    // Controls the font size in pixels.
"editor.lineHeight": 0     // Controls the line height. Use 0 to compute the lineHeight from the fontSize.

If I set them to 13 and 15 respectively then the visible lines area becomes on par with the other editors: 71 lines.

Also, (while using the default Dark+ theme and the default setting "editor.fontFamily": "Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace") with my suggested settings, 13pt Consolas I think it is appears a bit boldish. Changing the value"editor.fontWeight": "normal" to anything below 400 doesn’t make a difference. (related issue: #381) That’s why I believe that, in conjunction with the above two suggested changes, it would be even better to switch to a slightly different font that would support setting fontWeight below 400 e.g. something like “Consolas Light” -I know that this font currently doesn’t exit- )

So, my suggestion is to change the default values of these settings to 13 and 15 respectively, plus lower the fontWeight value somehow

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Here is VSCode with its default settings: screenshot 682

And here is comparison of VSCode with my suggested settings vs Sublime Text 3:

screenshot 678 screenshot 678b

[hi-hai]

Consolas looks much better on JetBrain’s IDE-s and in Sublime Text. The same font size. The font weight on VS Code is messed up because of the underlying Electron code, which is mostly being developed outside of MS. GitHub’s own Atom editor suffers the same problem.

@regs01 I agree that the font size and height is a matter of taste. As the editor is configurable, everyone can “tune” it to suit his/her preferences 😃

Can’t agree more. However even I set font size to 13, the margin between lines are still larger than sublime text. Looks pretty strange and difficult to read than ST.

This is Sublime Text

This is VS code:

[cpsauer]

Hey fellow folks interested in font/line height configuration in VSCode: Any chance we could get your upvote over on #115960?

We’re trying to get line height expressible as a ratio of font size, as it is in other editors and in other parts of VSCode, and we could really use your help. We’ve got just a few more days to get those last few votes! It’d make it much easier to dynamically resize fonts!