How to change the braces/parenthesis colors in Visual Studio

Question

I am not talking about the highlight colors but the actual colors. I got a color scheme with light background color but the braces/parentheses are barely visible. Anyone knows how to change this?

Btw this is for C# because C++ seems to color braces/parentheses using operator color.

Answer 1

As far as I have been able to find, you can't :-(

Answer 2

Tools > Options > Fonts and Colors > "Display Items" : Plain Text

Unfortunately this changes a lot more than just braces but its the only way to target them as far as I know.

Answer 3

Bah, posted an answer and it got lost. FF and my proxy server aren't getting along.

I think there's no way to just change the color of the parens, they seems to follow the text color. I did find this tool that lets you do all sorts of things with paren color; looked pretty nifty for $49.

Answer 4

But what about this? The braces and plain text is different.

Answer 5

I know this is an old already answered question but I found a solution that suited me at least.

Set the "Plain Text" colour to be the colour you want the braces to be then set the "Identifier" colour to be what you want the rest of the text to look like.