I have tried installing the Consolas font pack so that I can use it with VS 2005. For some reason it looks a lot bolder than Wikipedia's and Jeff Atwood's examples. I read something about anti-aliasing and I am trying that now. Any ideas on how to get it too look thin and sleak?
EDIT: Sorry found out. It has something to do with ClearType fonts. Turning it on sorted out all my problems.
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Did you make sure you have ClearType activated?
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It looks bolder when your Windows OS (XP?) has Font smoothing turned on.
Right click your Desktop > Properties > Appearance tab > Effects > "Use the following method to smoothe screen fonts".
Try changing it to ClearType / Standard / Turn it off. Keep switching back to VS and scroll up/down a bit to see the effect.
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You can turn on the clearType by running through the wizard from MS website below,
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/step1.aspx
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