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There are some notable improvements, most visibly the slash in 0. From https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode “Fira Code is not only about ligatures. Some fine-tuning is done for punctuation and frequent letter pairs.” Note that without…

comment by strenholme · 2026-10-14 · in Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

…flag to your text editor of choice. (If the text editor supports otf font features) For more info: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

comment by ss141309 · 2026-03-31 · in CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

…you the context clues of what it looks like in a language you may be already familiar with. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/tree/6.2

comment by WorldMaker · 2025-01-10 · in Shaping ligatures in monospace fonts

…such as a reshape to www and **. Triple bar equals is nice too given the differences in JS. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by tkcranny · 2024-11-19 · in Math4devs.com: List of mathematical symbols with their JavaScript equivalent

…font specifically is used in the article but an example of a monospace font with ligatures is Fira: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by arrowsmith · 2024-10-12 · in Putting a full power search engine in Ecto

…fonts even often draw it that way. For instance it is shown under F# in the Fira Code README: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by WorldMaker · 2024-08-29 · in Google's new pipe syntax in SQL

…with native mouse and scrollback ( https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html ) - Ligatures ( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font... ), Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and dynamic color schemes…

comment by alwillis · 2024-01-31 · in I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals

…fonts, there is also FiraCode. Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode EDIT: @airstrike beat me to it. Anyway, that's my favorite.

comment by gala8y · 2023-11-18 · in Berkeley Mono Typeface

…using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by airstrike · 2023-11-18 · in Berkeley Mono Typeface

…cv27 enabled, for distinct escaping backslashes, =~ and !~ operators, and smooth-square []. [0]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by pie_flavor · 2023-11-09 · in Monaspace

…editor support, you would have to build it yourself since they don't distribute a NL version. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#whats-in-the-box

comment by ammar2 · 2023-07-19 · in JetBrains Mono Typeface

Perhaps Fira Code? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764527 But I think it's different: it uses double-width characters for two-character ligatures, so this doesn't break alignment.

comment by fweimer · 2023-05-13 · in Intel One Mono Typeface

…triple) sized compared with other symbols. IIRC this is commonly called "monospaced ligatures" ref https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/712

comment by hakre · 2023-05-13 · in Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

My two favourite monospaced fonts are: - fira code: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode - jetbrains mono: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ And I have tried a lot . Everything else feels weirdly stretched or cramped or not legible enough…

comment by atoav · 2023-05-13 · in Intel One Mono Typeface

…wants for the ligature glyph, yes. IIRC, Tonsky's Fira code is designed with this in mind ( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ) (Butterick uses Fira Code as his example.) But maybe it's the intent of the designer to have each glyph have…

comment by grzm · 2023-05-13 · in Intel One Mono Typeface

Looks like fira code font https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode and the color scheme is similar to the soft default Alacritty terminal uses https://alacritty.org/

comment by qbasic_forever · 2023-04-04 · in Show HN: Gat – cat alternative written in Go

I got one too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/pull/1518

comment by tonsky · 2023-04-03 · in Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

…is a huge point of contention. There is a thread on Github that describes the frustration well: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/601 This is a fundamental trade off between aesthetics of the char itself vs. the aesthetics of…

comment by systemvoltage · 2023-02-14 · in Modern Mono

I also like both of them. I use Fira Code ( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ) for code editor and IBM Plex Mono for terminal.

comment by manusachi · 2023-01-31 · in Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

…topic I suppose. [0]: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-... [1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/progre...

comment by oktwtf · 2022-11-15 · in Berkeley Mono v1.008 Released

…get the frustration of seeing ligatures on the web and not understanding what was going on! [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by chrisshroba · 2022-11-11 · in How stdbuf works

…[1]: https://github.com/slavfox/Cozette [2]: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ [3]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode [4]: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro

comment by kitsunesoba · 2022-07-11 · in Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

I've been using FiraCode for a year or so and like it pretty well https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by tcfunk · 2022-07-11 · in Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

…(2) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Coenraad... (3) https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/633

comment by alexvoda · 2022-02-15 · in MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

They're ligatures. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by roywiggins · 2022-02-12 · in Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets

…have that installed if you want your foobar to look the same. That font is freely available here: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by keb_ · 2022-01-28 · in Foobar2000

…that works only on application level, not OS, so not all IDEs support choosing stylistic sets: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

comment by laacz · 2022-01-23 · in JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

Fair. At the least, some of those examples have variants that can be manually enabled: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/charac...

comment by minimaxir · 2022-01-20 · in JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

…and easy to find reference materials for. For instance Fira Code's big first chart in this section: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#whats-in-the-box

comment by WorldMaker · 2021-12-21 · in Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

…to only enable the specific ligatures you are interested in if your editor and font support it. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

comment by jamincan · 2021-12-21 · in Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

…able to copy text selections that end part way through a ligature. This requires some finesse. [0] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by pbronez · 2021-12-21 · in Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

Always, always, always link to things. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by robbedpeter · 2021-12-06 · in Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?

…of) QT gui doesn't support ligature fonts yet. The FiraCode website says it works with NeoVim-gtk: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#user-content-editor-compa... Maybe I'll give that another go ...

comment by Smylers · 2021-05-27 · in Neovim 0.5 is overpowering

…to intercept and draw them directly, not through the font. Otherwise you’ll get horizontal gaps too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/449

comment by tonsky · 2021-03-31 · in Let’s fix font size

…MS, and there is the very popular monospace variant Fira Code: https://v-fonts.com/fonts/fira-code https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode Not to mention the original Fira Mono: https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans/blob/master/Fira_Mono_3...…

comment by strenholme · 2020-12-24 · in Comic Mono

The free Fira Code [0] has them. I don't have the knowledge to respond to your second point. [0] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by ThePadawan · 2020-12-22 · in Libre Barcode Project

…In addition to ligatures there are lot of well thought design details that increase legibility. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by piculet · 2020-11-02 · in Ask HN: What Programming Font do you use?

…be done with a protocol few terminal supports), we don't even have Font Ligatures widely available. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#editor-compatibility-list

comment by danyspin97 · 2020-07-26 · in Colorize Your CLI

The author is apparently the same author as Fira Code, a ligature-supporting monospaced font. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by rocky1138 · 2020-06-17 · in Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

…on the right, tell me if you can tell how to reproduce each one without a lot of guesswork. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by oefrha · 2020-05-10 · in Carbon: Create and share images of source code

This reminds me of "programming ligatures": https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by ken · 2020-01-03 · in Programming Language Checklist

…free clean programming fonts is also a bit bizarre; we see free fonts released all the time. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by dvt · 2019-10-27 · in Victor Mono – A free programming font

…specifically you mean by "font shaping", but VS Code definitely supports programming ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions

comment by pimlottc · 2019-10-26 · in Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure

Here you go: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by gunn · 2019-10-15 · in What’s New in Python 3.8

…coding: https://input.fontbureau.com/ and of course "Fira Code" which became popular for ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by manigandham · 2019-09-20 · in Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

…) - Input (above) - Fira Code (only when coding JS, the only place I like ligatures) ( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode )

comment by geraltofrivia · 2019-08-23 · in Ask HN: What font do you use for coding?

In terms of ligature support, as a free alternative there is FiraCode... https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by quaffapint · 2019-07-26 · in Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface

The same way as in any other font. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by lmilcin · 2019-07-26 · in Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface

What about ligatures? I love using the Fira Code font. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

comment by bokchoi · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal

Here's an example: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/751

comment by hoseja · 2019-05-02 · in Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No