How do I set the default font size in Vim?
VimFontsVim Problem Overview
I am trying to configure the default settings for my GUI with Vim. I already made research on the web, but all the solutions I found and tried did not work.
Here are some of the things I tried (in the .vimrc file):
set guifont = Monaco:h20
set guifont=Monospace 20
Actually I don't care about the Monaco font.
Vim Solutions
Solution 1 - Vim
For the first one remove the spaces. Whitespace matters for the set command.
set guifont=Monaco:h20
For the second one it should be (the h specifies the height)
set guifont=Monospace:h20
My recommendation for setting the font is to do (if your version supports it)
set guifont=*
This will pop up a menu that allows you to select the font. After selecting the font, type
set guifont?
To show what the current guifont is set to. After that copy that line into your vimrc or gvimrc. If there are spaces in the font add a \
to escape the space.
set guifont=Monospace\ 20
Solution 2 - Vim
Try a \<Space>
before 12
, like so:
:set guifont=Monospace\ 12
Solution 3 - Vim
I cross over the same problem
I put the following code in the folder ~/.gvimrc
and it works.
set guifont=Monaco:h20
Solution 4 - Vim
Add Regular to syntax and use gfn
:
> set gfn= Monospace\ Regular:h13
Solution 5 - Vim
The other answers are what you asked about, but in case it’s useful to anyone else, here’s how to set the font conditionally from the screen DPI (Windows only):
set guifont=default
if has('windows')
"get dpi, strip out utf-16 garbage and new lines
"system() converts 0x00 to 0x01 for 'platform independence'
"should return something like 'PixelsPerXLogicalInch=192'
"get the part from the = to the end of the line (eg '=192') and strip
"the first character
"and convert to a number
let dpi = str2nr(strpart(matchstr(substitute(
\system('wmic desktopmonitor get PixelsPerXLogicalInch /value'),
\'\%x01\|\%x0a\|\%x0a\|\%xff\|\%xfe', '', 'g'),
\'=.*$'), 1))
if dpi > 100
set guifont=high_dpi_font
endif
endif
Solution 6 - Vim
You may find useful this plugin I made to simplify setting guifont
in a portable way: https://github.com/awvalenti/vim-simple-guifont. Your vimrc
goes like this and it handles all the OS specific stuff:
silent! call simple_guifont#Set(
['Cascadia Code PL', 'JetBrains Mono', 'Hack'], 'Consolas', 14)