title: True-type fonts that I installed not rendered in Visual Studio 2010 Text editor
body: <p>I am trying to change the font for the Text Editor in VS 2010 Ultimate on a machine running Win XP Professional SP3 (32bit), and it does not render any installed fonts correctly - works fine with the default fonts though. <em>(At first, I thought it was only with Monaco font, but I recently realized that it's more than that.)</em></p>
  
  <p>I have tested with some fonts, including <em>Inconsolata</em>, <em>Futurist fixed-width</em> and <em>Monaco</em> on my PC, and if I change the font to any true-type font that I installed, the font renders as <em>Consolas</em> although the font name in the <strong>Fonts and Colors</strong> window shows the new font name. </p>
  
  <p>I was successfully able to apply Monaco font on a colleague's machine (we both have the same OS and VS editions). I could also change the font in VS 2008 on my machine, that looks fine as well. Also, I can change the font to any of the above said fonts in my MS Word and Excel applications, so I don't think it is a system-wide problem. </p>
  
  <p>I came across <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/255855/is-it-true-visual-studio-cant-handle-fonts-installed-after-it-was">this very old post</a> on SO that addresses a similar issue <em>(which might not even be relevant to the 2010)</em>, but I did try some of the techniques listed for what it's worth without any success.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I did so far (not necessarily in the same order), and nothing worked - </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms241273(v=vs.100).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Resetting</a> the Visual Studio as per the suggestion in the comments</li>
  <li>Restart the IDE after installing the font</li>
  <li>Close VS, un-install and re-install the font, and open VS again </li>
  <li>Open VS in safe mode, disable the extensions, re-open VS again  </li>
  <li>Repair/reinstall the Visual Studio</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is it a possibility that my VS is corrupted? (If that's the case, wouldn't repairing have fixed that?)</p>
  
  <p>I also learnt from a <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/544089/can-t-use-fixedsys-strange-rendering-engine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Connect bug</a> that VS 2010 text editor has been rebuilt using WPF - could that be what is causing the issue? The strange thing is, I can successfully set the <strong>environment font</strong> (the font for VS menus, solution explorer window, etc.) to any font I like - I cannot set the font only for the windows where we can type text, like the Text Editor, Watch window, Immediate Window, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Did anyone else come across this kind of problem? Does anyone have a solution? I am out of ideas now, and my last resort seems to be uninstalling VS completely and re-installing (but again, I am not sure if that will work either).</p>