#Notepad++ change font on the fly update

Aren't there several other overall color themes available for Notepad++ and if so, how does one obtain them? While I am not particularly fond of the exact color selections in the 2nd screenshot, it certainly is easier to look at (imo) than the washed-out appearance in the 1st - and hopefully conveys an idea of what I'm after. 1) and the same content in another editor* (AHK Studio) (Fig. Here is the appearance of a portion of a script in Notepad++ with the AHK plug-in (Fig. Will a plug-in affect or be effected by changes made to the background and font colors? This will change the font of the entire file. 4 Select the font, style and size you want to use. This will open a separate window that displays font options, font styles, and size. Recently I learned that an AHK plug-in is available for Notepad++ and thanks to some very helpful (and patient) experts at EE, I was able to get the plug-in installed. This is located on the menu bar and displays a drop down menu with two options. I am an avid but novice user of AutoHotkey (AHK) and I have been looking for a text editor specifically designed for AHK. I am not a programmer nor have I previously used Notepad++ so here is some additional information and a couple of questions which may or may not be relevant: To fix this issue, we need to replace all instances of “500” with “700” like we did with the font text and save the file.Hello, How do you change the background in Notepad++ from the default white to a darker shade and how do you change individual font colors? This is because the original template font used a font size of “500” while our new font doesn’t have that font size, only “400” and “700” which is why we selected the “700” option when selecting the new font. You might notice that some text isn’t bold like the original template. You’ll see the same template but with a different font. Once all “Fira Sans” is replaced with “Noto Serif,” save the file and open it.

You can press “Replace all” if you don’t want to replace each line individually. You can see that I replaced the first line with “Noto Serif,” while the lines below it use “Fira Sans.” We do that by pressing the “Replace” tab in the new window, filling out the “Replace with” input and pressing the “Replace” button like in this screenshot: Next, replace all the text where it says “Fira Sans” to our new font, “Noto Serif.” The default font in this file is called “Fira Sans,” and we can find all the occurrences of “Fira Sans” by pressing “control + F” in Notepad++ and typing in “Fira Sans.” It’ll look something like this:

#Notepad++ change font on the fly update

To change the default font to our new font, we’ll have to update each place where the code uses the default font.

Now that our HTML document has the Noto Serif font included, we can start styling our text with it. Start changing the code to change the font This tells the HTML document to include the Noto Serif font from Google Fonts into the document to be available for use in the code. Your Notepad++ view should look like this: Now go back to the embed tab and copy the link.Īdd that link in your index.html file in the element. Make sure the “bold 700” is selected, we’ll be needing this. Click the “customize” tab in the new pop up section that appeared after you pressed “select this font.” To add this font to your project, click the “select font” button and add the “link” tag to your HTML code.īefore you copy the link tag, you need to change one thing. For this tutorial, we’re going to use Noto Serif. Go to the Google Fonts website and select the font you want to use. Get the font and add it to your HTML file Here you can see the contents of the HTML file and make changes. If you’re struggling to open the file in a text editor, you can check out this link for additional help. Right-click the index.html file and open it with Notepad++. We have our template files and now we want to edit them and update the font. If you open the index.html file it should look like this in your browser:

Unzip those files into a folder you want to work in, and it should look like this: