Is there a way to change the font so it's easier to read. the menus seem fine but the place you type you code is very hard to see as it's faded. any help is appreciated. TIA
In preferences.txt:
editor.font=Monaco,plain,12
You can find a pointer to your preferences.txt file in the Preferences dialog.
I changed mine from editor.font=Monospace,plain,12 to editor.font=Monospace, bold,12 and nothing happened. Then I tried editor.font=Ariel, bold,12. Still nothing!
Did you shut down the IDE before changing the file and start the IDE again after changing the file? The IDE writes a new preferences.txt quite often and, I think, only reads it when starting up.
Ok, my bad. Misspelled Arial as areil. It doesn't seem to change the comments lines, but that's ok. I'm using it to help learn how to use an oscilloscope.
Something to note is that the "weight" parameter of the preference is ignored:
So you should see the IDE reflect the "Arial" and "12" parts, but it doesn't recognize "bold" vs "plain"
You can adjust the color of the comments via the editor.comment2.style property of the Arduino IDE theme. There is some information about that here:
and here:
https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=526402.msg4678818#msg4678818
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