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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

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  1. 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
  2. …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
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    FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by tyleo · 2025-11-11 · 1 comment
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. …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
  10. …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
  11. …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
  12. …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
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    FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by Lwrless · 2023-07-19 · 150 comments
  14. 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
  15. …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)
  16. 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
  17. …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
  18. 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
  19. 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?
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …[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?
  25. 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?
  26. …(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
  27. They're ligatures. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by roywiggins · 2022-02-12 · in Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets
  28. …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
  29. …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
  30. 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
  31. …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)
  32. …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)
  33. …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)
  34. 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?
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    FiraCode v6 released – char variants, progress bar, new Unicode char
    story by Sea-n · 2021-11-29 · 6 comments
  36. …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
  37. …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
  38. …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
  39. 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
  40. …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?
  41. ▲ 1
    FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
    story by natcombs · 2020-08-18 · 0 comments
  42. …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
  43. 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
  44. ▲ 2
    Fire Code font version 4 released
    story by sthottingal · 2020-05-18 · 0 comments
  45. …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
  46. This reminds me of "programming ligatures": https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by ken · 2020-01-03 · in Programming Language Checklist
  47. …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
  48. …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
  49. Here you go: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
    comment by gunn · 2019-10-15 · in What’s New in Python 3.8
  50. …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