registering-fonts-colors

What problem does it solve?

Fonts and Colors customization lets VS extension developers expose and manage font and color categories that users can tune on the Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors page, ensuring extensions display items consistently across themes.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Define a font and color category by deriving from a base category type (e.g., BaseFontAndColorCategory<T>).
• Register a fonts-and-colors provider and expose color definitions that users can customize.
• Read user-selected fonts and colors at runtime via the VS fonts and colors APIs, enabling theme-aware styling of extension UI.
• Use case: a syntax-highlighting extension exposes per-item colors and fonts that align with the active Visual Studio theme.

Quick Start

Create a font and color category class, register it with your extension’s package, and read the configured fonts and colors at runtime.