Change font

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Tip 1587 Previous Next created February 16, 2008 · complexity basic · author Metacosm · version 7.0

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In gvim, you can change the font using the Edit menu, Select Font. An alternative is to enter the command:

:set guifont=*

Once you have a font you like, you want to make it the default in the future. Do

:set guifont?

and Vim will display something like

guifont=Lucida_Console:h11

Note: If there is a space in the text printed, such as

guifont=Monospace 10

it may be necessary to escape the space

set guifont=Monospace\ 10

Make a note of this string. Now put a line in your vimrc to set guifont to this value, like this:

if has('gui_running')
  set guifont=Lucida_Console:h11
endif

Note: Do not forget to escape blanks in the font name with \

[edit] See also

• Setting the font in the GUI details

[edit] Comments

Am keeping this as a simple form of VimTip632 for newcomers.