You can change 2 type of fonts... The text edit window font is easy to change: From the Window menu select: Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts The open the Basic section and select Text Font (the last entery in the Basic section) Click edit and make your selection To change the Font in the Explorer windows, it is a little harder: You have to navigate to where Ellipse is installed and edit a CSS file Font size for Eclipse explorer: -> plugins -> org.eclipse.ui.themes_(version) -> css -> e4_basestyle (on the Lab Machines this path is: C:\Users\Administrator\codereadystudio\studio\plugins) Add this to the end of the document, and restart eclipse Tree { font-size: 16px; /* <-- Desired font size */ font: Consolas; /* <-- Font you want to have */ }