Every so often I get the urge to find a new programming font. The pattern tends to be.. I look for a bit, can't find anything I really like, then go back to the stock Consolas. About a year later, the same thing happens again. Then back to Consolas. And so on.
However, about a month ago - the last iteration of this was slightly different! Folx go. I tweeted out the following tweet ..
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What's your favourite programming font? I normally use the stock Consolas, but got the urge for a change!
— Dan Clarke (@dracan) November 6, 2017Microsoft word mac app store. A few of the replies raved about a font called Fira Code! At this point, I had already tried a few others, and was getting ready to go back to Consolas again - until I installed Fira Code, and immediately loved it!
Forgetting about this very cool thing called 'ligatures' (which I'll talk about in a bit) - it's a really nice looking font too. I've now installed it on all the different things I use - eg. Visual Studio,VSCode, LINQPad, ConEmu, WinMerge, etc, etc.
As well as looking really nice - it also supports ligatures - which is basically where multiple characters are represented by a single symbol (or glyph).
Below are a few examples (without ligatures enabled on the left, with ligatures enabled on the right). These are a very small subset of what's available, just to give an example.
You don't have to actually do anything to turn the two characters into a single symbol, and they're still actually stored as two characters on disk. It's just a font rendering thing. As soon as you type the second character of the set, your editor will render the ligature instead.
It takes a bit of getting used to, and you don't have to have ligatures enabled to use this font. I quite like it though - especially the lambda arrow symbol.
I've been using this for over a month now, and am fairly sure that it's going to be my main programming font now for a long time to come. A massive thank you to Nikita Prokopov for all the hard work he has put into this amazing font!
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Blogged: 'Fira Code: My New Favorite Programming Font' https://t.co/yWkCdg0JJs@FiraCode@nikitonsky#programming#fonts
— Dan Clarke (@dracan) December 14, 2017Every so often I get the urge to find a new programming font. The pattern tends to be.. I look for a bit, can't find anything I really like, then go back to the stock Consolas. About a year later, the same thing happens again. Then back to Consolas. And so on.
However, about a month ago - the last iteration of this was slightly different! I tweeted out the following tweet ..
What's your favourite programming font? I normally use the stock Consolas, but got the urge for a change!
Add Fira Code Font To Visual Studio Code
— Dan Clarke (@dracan) November 6, 2017A few of the replies raved about a font called Fira Code! At this point, I had already tried a few others, and was getting ready to go back to Consolas again - until I installed Fira Code, and immediately loved it!
Forgetting about this very cool thing called 'ligatures' (which I'll talk about in a bit) - it's a really nice looking font too. I've now installed it on all the different things I use - eg. Visual Studio,VSCode, LINQPad, ConEmu, WinMerge, etc, etc.
Visual Studio Code Fira Code Font
As well as looking really nice - it also supports ligatures - which is basically where multiple characters are represented by a single symbol (or glyph).
Below are a few examples (without ligatures enabled on the left, with ligatures enabled on the right). These are a very small subset of what's available, just to give an example.
You don't have to actually do anything to turn the two characters into a single symbol, and they're still actually stored as two characters on disk. It's just a font rendering thing. As soon as you type the second character of the set, your editor will render the ligature instead.
It takes a bit of getting used to, and you don't have to have ligatures enabled to use this font. I quite like it though - especially the lambda arrow symbol. Movavi photo editor.
I've been using this for over a month now, and am fairly sure that it's going to be my main programming font now for a long time to come. A massive thank you to Nikita Prokopov for all the hard work he has put into this amazing font!
Please retweet if you enjoyed this post ..
Blogged: 'Fira Code: My New Favorite Programming Font' https://t.co/yWkCdg0JJs@FiraCode@nikitonsky#programming#fonts
— Dan Clarke (@dracan) December 14, 2017