How to change font Netbeans IDE

This tutorial explains changing font styles to Netbeans IDE.

These styles are applied to changing the default font configuration in menus menu items and popup windows.

Netbeans Font configuration.

There are multiple ways to change font properties and configurations in IDE.

netbeans.conf is a configuration file located in the NetBeans installation folder.

In windows, It is located in <netbeans-installation-folder>/etc/netbeans.conf.

Open netbeans.conf in any editor . Next, Find the netbeans_default_options key and add the below value to the end of its value. change from

netbeans_default_options="existing-value"

netbeans_default_options="existing-value --fontsize 21"

--fontsize 21 value changes its default size from 11 increased to 21.

This approach has the flexibility to change the editor and language editor font and colors

Go to the Tools menu
Select Options
It shows the Options window
Select Fonts & Colors and change font colors font-family and save it to profiles

The toolbar contains various options with names.

You can easily change using the –fontsize option or using UI described above.