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? 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. 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: When you changed the font type in the font popup, click OK to restore or click Cancel to continue with your existing font settings.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? Menu item and restore the font type to Consolas or Lucida Console depending upon the windows version as mentioned at the beginning of this post. To restore the notepad font to default settings, in the notepad menu select Format Menu and then select Font. Restore Notepad Font to Default on Windows If the change was temporary and later you need to restore the default font follow the below step. When you open the notepad next time, you will see the updated font changes. You can also manually edit the font size. In Font size select smaller or bigger font size as per your need. In Font Style, there are four types of font styles available Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. In Font type change it to another font say Arial. On Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 the default notepad font was Lucida Console, Regular, 10. The default notepad script type is Western. The default notepad font is Consolas, Regular, 10 on Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11.

This article helps you to view the default notepad font, and change the default font or restore to the default notepad font on different versions of Windows.

Notepad++ change font on the fly