Here’s a dumb problem I keep having on my work laptop. For some reason, Visual Studio 2022 shows me a notification that it can’t find the Cascadia fonts, and that a reboot will probably fix the problem.
That’s great and all, but I’m like in the middle of something and have a ton of other apps open and really don’t feel like rebooting right now (do we ever?). But being stuck looking at code in an ugly ass Courier font, isn’t what a self-respecting developer feels like doing either, right?
Last time I ran into this, I figured I might as well find the font and see if I couldn’t just reinstall it. VS should pick it up again after a restart. Turns out I was right. No reboot needed, here’s how you reinstall the Cascadia fonts on your machine:
- Open the path C:\Windows\Fonts
- Lookup the Cascadia fonts. There should be 2, CascadiaCode.ttf and CascadiaMono.ttf.
- For each font file, double click it.
A window will open, previewing the font. In the top toolbar, click Install. - Now restart Visual Studio. You’ll see your code represented in a pretty font once again.