FiraCode

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 it. Anyway, that's my favorite.

I was the same until I started 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

Some other fonts use character variants for this, so you can personalize your own setup. For example, with Fira Code[0], if you want to tell VS Code to not use the long = for == but still space it in a less ugly way, instead of setting ligatures to true, you set it to "'ss08'", which will then do the same thing to === and != and !==. This is also where they can hide their 'overthinking' glyphs, so the discerning user can enable them but they won't disrupt you if you just install the font normally. For example I have ss06, ss07, and cv27 enabled, for distinct escaping backslashes, =~ and !~ operators, and smooth-square []. [0]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Doesn't that depend on the font author providing a NL version? e.g if you want the FiraCode improvements[1] over FiraMono without the ligatures. Without 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

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.

I think that is a stylistic decision to make it appear as if, but again, this ain't monospace any longer. In monospace one letter/symbol (printable character) has constant width. The ligature is one letter/symbol. so while the stylistic decision retains the monospace style of the replaced symbols, the ligature itself is double (or triple) sized compared with other symbols. IIRC this is commonly called "monospaced ligatures" ref https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/712

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 etc.

If that's the shape the font designer 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 the same width, not each "character", so the glyph LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO (≤, https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2264) would be the same width as < or =: it's ultimately up to the application/typesetting engine to decide whether or to substitute the character string "<=" as "≤", and to see if the font _has_ that character and how to render it to the screen. I suppose you could have the typesetting engine choose to somehow read the two characters, note that there's a ligature substitution, and "fit" the ligature glyph into a two-character space (say, padding the glyph o

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/

I got one too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/pull/1518

This is actually a problem with any font that has an 'r' without a base. For example, Andale Mono: https://i.imgur.com/PeLZrj4.png Fira Code and others do an ugly thing with 'r' that 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 spacing between chars. It comes down to personal preference and fits the "boring" description from Berkeley Mono marketing page. Perhaps there should be an option for two types of 'r', one with a base and one without. That'd be great!

I also like both of them. I use Fira Code (https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode) for code editor and IBM Plex Mono for terminal.