Fonts and colors in Eclipse

Eclipse uses the fonts and colors provided by the operating system as much as possible. On Windows the platform color and font settings are found on the Properties->Appearance page. The font used by most widgets in Eclipse is the one set in the Message Box settings of the properties. However, operating systems do not provide enough colors to handle all of the extra information that color and fonts provide in Eclipse. 

Fonts

New Project Wizard

There are 3 main fonts in use by the Eclipse platform. They are

Banner Font
used in PDE editors, welcome pages and in the title area of many wizards. For instance the New Project wizard uses this font for the top title,
Header Font
used as a section heading. For instance the Welcome page for the Eclipse Platform uses this font for the top title,
Text Font
used in text editors.

These fonts can be set via the Workbench >Font preference. As well as these 3 fonts there are several other secondary font settings. These default to the text font. They can be found on the following preference pages:

Colors

Eclipse uses colors as an information enhancement in many places. Whenever possible the operating system color settings are used but in cases where the operating system settings are not enough Eclipse defines other colors. All of these colors can be adjusted via the following preference pages:

Related tasks
Accessibility Features in Eclipse
Navigating the user interface by using the keyboard

Related references
Keyboard shortcuts

 
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