JOjohnhenry·Dec 1, 2018
Have you tried them in your IDE yet? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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tonsky / FiraCode
FiraCode
Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
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What it is
Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
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As for free, monospaced fonts, there is also FiraCode. Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode EDIT: @airstrike beat me to…
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 4 | 11 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 1 | 15 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
12 sourcesI 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 encountered, or a mild improvement, or even annoying. But I love them!
A number of coding-oriented fonts support them now:
https://medium.com/larsenwork-andreas-larsen/ligatures-codin...
also, small grammar niggle: "it's" should only be used where it can be replaced with "it is" and still make sense; otherwise it's always "its" :)
In UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8Fira Code https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
In Ask HN: What is your favorite programming font?If you code in the console with this : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ??? Dunno...
In Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulatorI have a different proposal - ligatures.
I don't know if you've ever played with a font like FiraCode, but it gives you both fancy typographical symbols and compatibility with existing compilers by defining purely-visual translations between certain sequences of characters and 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.
In InterrobangWould you care to elaborate? Is there something specific you see in this project that caught your eye? One thing I noticed is the use of ligatures, which is becoming increasingly common as editors embrace Unicode more fully, but that's an editor/presentation feature, not something specific to the language. For example:
-> →
=> ⇒
>= ≥
I've seen an increasing number of people trying out Fira Code, which includes a nice set of such ligatures:
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
In Show HN: Ghostwheel – easy spec, side effect detection and tracing for ClojureWell, I also tend to enjoy programming ligatures, such as != 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...
In You don't need ML/AI, you need SQLThe point of Org mode is that you can type the table.
How do you type ┌─ ?
It's easier to use a font that renders "regular" keyboard characters as borders, akin to https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
In Console.table()Monospaced font with programming ligatures
3 points · Open discussionFira Code's nice. Give it a try.
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
In Sublime Text 3.1 ReleasedCould be done in a font with ligatures.
Turns out that ligatures in common font formats are quite powerful! See e.g. http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/ or https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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