This product uses the fonts and colors provided by the operating system as much as possible. Operating systems do not provide enough colors to handle all of the extra information that colors and fonts provide in the workbench.
Fonts
There are 4 main fonts in use by the workbench. They are:
Font | Description |
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Banner | Used in PDE editors, welcome pages and in the title area of many wizards. For instance the New Project wizard uses this font for the top title. |
Header | Used as a section heading. For instance the Welcome page for the Eclipse Platform uses this font for the top title, |
Text | Used in text editors. |
Dialog | Used in dialog boxes |
These fonts can be set via the Workbench > Colors and Fonts preference. As well as these 4 fonts there are several other secondary font settings. These default to the text font. They can be found on the Colors and Fonts preference page.
Colors
The workbench uses colors as an information enhancement in many places. Whenever possible the operating system color settings are used, but in cases where the operating system settings are not enough, the workbench defines other colors. All of these colors can be adjusted via the following preference pages:
Accessibility and
the Windows® Color
Dialog
For color selection, the workbench uses a dialog box provided by the operating system. On Windows, the color selection dialog box does not respond properly to assitive technology. When you first open he dialog box, focus is on one of the basic colors, but the dialog box provides no indication of this through assistive technology. You can select colors in the workbench with this dialog box in the following way: