How can I change Intellisense tooltip colors

Question

How can I change the colors of the tooltip shown by Intellisense under Visual Studio?

I've customized my editor colors to get white text on a dark background, by keeping VS theme to "Blue" (I find that the Dark theme lacks contrast), but now the Intellisense tooltip is unreadable.

Answer 1

The quickest and easiest fix is to change the following colors:

• Tools → Options → Environment → Fonts and Colors → Show settings for "Environment":
  • ToolTip
  • ToolTip Border
• Tools → Options → Environment → Fonts and Colors → Show settings for "Editor Tooltip":
  • Plain Text

Here I managed to make the tooltip readable with my dark editor colors on a "Blue" theme:

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If that's not enough, you could install the Color Theme Editor addon as suggested here.