How to Zoom In and Out in VS Code (Plus an Optional Extension)
I love the Zoom Bar extension for VS Code, but you don’t need it be able to zoom in and zoom out.
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4 min readDec 22, 2020
Since I’ve been streaming about programming, I’ve been using a 10px font size in my VS Code settings and then zooming in as I code.
In VS Code, zooming in also increases the interface size, while the font size setting does not, so I like to make my interface more readable.
The Zoom Bar extension tells me my zoom in the status bar at the bottom of my VS Code window, and I can click to change the zoom level.
But you don’t need Zoom Bar to become a zoom master; just use these keyboard shortcuts for VS Code:
- View: Reset Zoom
Ctrl+NumPad0 - View: Zoom In
Ctrl+= - View: Zoom Out
Ctrl+-
You may realize that these are the same Zoom In and Zoom Out shortcuts as for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, except in the browsers the reset zoom is Ctrl +…
