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Discussion on: What fonts do you use in your editor(s)?

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Ethan Stewart

I use FiraCode, mostly for the ligatures but I do also like the look of the font.

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Vítězslav Ackermann Ferko

FiraCode ligatures are the way to go! :)

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Dan Lebrero

I concur!

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Bhaskar Karambelkar

Ditto. ligatures FTW!

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Jose Gonzalez • Edited

Hell yes, FiraCode. I use it in VS 2017 and VS Code. First thing I install in a brand new environment.

Once you go FiraCode, you don't go back or something.

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Marius Riis Haugan

Ooh, never seen FireCode before but it looks really good - excited to try it in VS 2017 tomorrow!

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Charles Reace

Caveat: I've not tried it, but question: why would you want ligatures in a mono-spaced font? I'm assuming it's mono-spaced? (Not intended as any sort of knock on your choice, I'm just truly curious.)

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Charles Reace

Answering my own question: I see that you are (probably) referring to the "ligatures" for various symbol character combinations -- not the traditional typographic ligatures for sequences such as "fi" or "tt". (I worked at a typesetting company many years ago. :-) )

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Jason Walzak

I never heard of ligatures before. They look rad. I'm going to give them a try.

I've been using Monaco as my font otherwise.

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ckempo

Me too! Discovering ligatures has made me shun fonts without support for them now. Used Hack, Inconsolata, Source Code Pro and Consolas before but it's Fira Code everywhere now.

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Alexandru Dreptu

I prefer the Source Code Pro look. There's a version of it with ligatures called Hasklig, which I use right now in VSCode and it's rendered super great.

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Yoav

Hasklig is awesome with VS indeed! Thanks for sharing it.

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tiff

Nvm. Guy answered below.

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tiff

Why would you want ligatures in your editor font? Seems hard to read to me. Can you give examples of what you mean?

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