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Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

107 mentions on Hacker News by 97 people: 15 stories, 92 comments · first 2015-05-22 · latest 2026-10-14

Mentions per year 107 mentions · busiest year 2019 (16)
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  1. ▲ 1
    Fira Code v2 released: 136 new glyphs
    story by ingve · 2019-09-11 · 0 comments
  2. …) - 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?
  3. In terms of ligature support, as a free alternative there is FiraCode... https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  4. The same way as in any other font. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  5. 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
  6. Here's an example: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/751
    comment by hoseja · 2019-05-02 · in Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
  7. …by hand, e.g. != becomes ≠, =< becomes ≤, or === becomes ≡. More examples are in the repo readme: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by mashehu · 2019-05-02 · in Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
  8. …and, often, they do: in sublime: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/ligatures.html in vscode: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions in atom: use CSS
    comment by tribby · 2019-05-02 · in Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
  9. …a matter of taste" when users are making this choice in the privacy of their own editors. [0]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by jake-low · 2019-05-02 · in Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
  10. …enjoy its aesthetic (especially the ligatures). For general purposes, I like Open Sans[2]. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode [2] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans
  11. Fira Code with ligature support turned on in your editor, or GTFO. LOVE. IT. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by pmarreck · 2019-01-21 · in Programming Fonts – Test Drive
  12. Fira Code is Fira Mono with coding ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode I used to prefer Consolas (Inconsolata is a ~clone of Consolas) but the ligatures made me switch.
    comment by oneseven · 2019-01-02 · in Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
  13. Have you tried them in your IDE yet? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  14. I get that "for free" via programming ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode Depending on your (irrational) feelings about fonts and typography, this may either be the most amazing advance in coding readability you've ever…
    comment by pmarreck · 2018-11-30 · in UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8
  15. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by a9entroy · 2018-11-26 · in Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance
  16. Fira Code https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by sammygutierrez · 2018-10-22 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite programming font?
  17. If you code in the console with this : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ??? Dunno...
  18. …purpose-built glyphs. So for example '!=' is rendered as '≠', '=>' as '⇒', '>=' as '≥', etc. See https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode . They do go a bit overboard, IMO.
    comment by azernik · 2018-07-11 · in Interrobang
  19. …an increasing number of people trying out Fira Code, which includes a nice set of such ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  20. …becoming ≠ or => becoming ⇒. (but in a size proportional to the pair of fixed width characters, see https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ) But then I don't inflict them on anyone but myself and people who look over my shoulder...
    comment by reificator · 2018-07-01 · in You don't need ML/AI, you need SQL
  21. …type ┌─ ? It's easier to use a font that renders "regular" keyboard characters as borders, akin to https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by gowld · 2018-06-14 · in Console.table()
  22. ▲ 3
    Monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by dewmal · 2018-06-02 · 0 comments
  23. Fira Code's nice. Give it a try. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by sus_007 · 2018-05-07 · in Sublime Text 3.1 Released
  24. …ligatures in common font formats are quite powerful! See e.g. http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/ or https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  25. ▲ 4
    Fira Code: Monospaced Font with Programming Ligatures
    story by jibcage · 2017-10-28 · 0 comments
  26. Some people use monospace fonts with ligatures specific to common programming languages: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode is one such example.
  27. …ligatures. I like the zero being a slash as opposed to a dot but the rest is spot on for me. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font...
  28. …Text, but one thing that has really annoyed me is the lack of support for font ligatures. See https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode It's a superficial reason, but I've gotten very used to them in Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code and Atom, yes,…
    comment by bad_user · 2017-09-13 · in Sublime Text 3.0
  29. …and justifies the use of a special font, which IMO is not really worth it without ligatures. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by abritinthebay · 2017-09-05 · in 10 most popular coding fonts
  30. …a hyphen (e.g. "->") doesn't work, due to a limitation in the Windows Presentation Framework. :( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/259
    comment by brianberns · 2017-07-21 · in Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
  31. …Mozilla. Fira Mono doesn't have cool ligatures but it's a good font and works pretty well. [0] : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/162 [1] : https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
  32. ▲ 3
    Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by grimgrin · 2017-06-25 · 0 comments
  33. Here's a font with programming related ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/README.md
  34. …I'm willing to switch back since I've yet to find an editor as fast and lightweight as Sublime. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by laurentdc · 2017-06-02 · in Sublime Text build 3133 now available
  35. ▲ 4
    FiraCode: monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by callumlocke · 2017-04-27 · 0 comments
  36. …down to "Ligation sets" https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ (note that they only show symbols) - https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode - https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig I think people using a programming language with a more math-like…
    comment by Noseshine · 2017-04-01 · in Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
  37. ▲ 2
    FiraCode: Monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by tekromancr · 2017-03-20 · 0 comments
  38. This is done by FiraCode fonts: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  39. same here. my only gripe is that it seemingly doesn't support firacode ( https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode )
  40. …However I did stumble into Fira Code [1], which has some awesome ligatures for programming! [1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode Edit: ouch Operator Mono is $199 and up. I've purchased quality fonts before, but that's well above my…
  41. …[1]. I use it in Vim and IntelliJ, and it looks great with Rust and other functional languages. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by echelon · 2016-12-22 · in Announcing Rust 1.14
  42. …be against them I think they're rather fun and can make code more readable. [1] see for example https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by sambeau · 2016-11-17 · in Go fonts
  43. I use Fira Code, it has ligatures https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  44. …there is option to use font with corresponding ligatures baked in, such as Fira Code [0]. [0] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by myfonj · 2016-10-03 · in Show HN: Ascii to SVG
  45. FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/ ;) ... I actually like it.
    comment by mcepl · 2016-06-19 · in Space Mono
  46. Fira Code Pro does: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  47. This is my fav: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by k__ · 2016-05-17 · in Programming Fonts
  48. …edit: switched to Fira Code Light (now that there is a light version) https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
  49. What editor do you use? Is it listed as supported here? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#editor-support
  50. You can try this https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Setting-up-Emacs