FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Productivity Power Tools

> * I don't see how ligatures make sense for code. For beautiful typography, sure, but not for text you edit with a cursor, etc.* Ligatures are just presentational so they don’t impair editing. If you ever try them again and use VSCode, you might like the Disable Ligatures that dynamically disables them for the selected line or cursor position. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.disableligatures.

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I’ve used Ligaturizer [2] to update the font to include ligatures. I believe the ligatures are even taken from FiraCode itself. I wonder how it’s fitting it to the width of a character as it’s much narrower, but still monospaced. - [1] https://input.djr.com/.

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Victor Mono

I love FiraCode! I was using it for almost half a decade before recently switching to Victor Mono. [1] The ligatures do serve a practical purpose to me anyways. I find they make parsing symbols much easier because the same symbol in different contexts looks different when it means something different. There’s a reason it’s a typography option that’s turned OFF in most editors though, I understand why people hate it. Also on the list of things people hate… victor mono has joined-up italics! Which I also love. :) [1] https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/.

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Medium

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