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JetBrains Mono - font for developers by developers

Tomek Poniatowicz on January 21, 2020

JetBrains is a company well-know for all developers. They have an impressive portfolio of dev tools among which the most popular ones are definitel...

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Bud • Jan 21 '20 • Edited

Neat, have you had a chance to compare this Fira Code?

Update/Edit

So I've been running this font for the better part of day. Transitioning from Fira Code was pretty seamless, all the ligatures I use daily are available. I like the simplified characters compared to Fira, in my opinion it makes scanning JSX/TSX slightly easier, this might also be due to the adjusted character spacing. Overall I think it's a good competitor to Fira Code. There's no clear winner here, both are nice to use, it'll come down to personal preference in the end.

Current VSCode Font Settings

"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "JetBrains Mono",
"terminal.integrated.fontSize": 12,
"editor.fontSize": 13,
"editor.fontFamily": "JetBrains Mono",
"editor.fontLigatures": true,

Arnas • Jan 21 '20

Check their web site jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ they have few comparisons with Fira Coda.

Zigmas Slušnys • Jan 22 '20 • Edited

Hello fellow Lithuanian!😃 Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

Tomasz Buszewski • Jan 22 '20

This is a great font, first one with decent ligatures that I can use without thinking "wtf is this" every ten second when I see one.

It's funny how far we've got from using Fixedsys, Courier and Courier New.

Michel Renaud • Jan 21 '20

I installed it last week. Looks very good. The ligatures were a bit of a surprise. :)

A couple of my coworkers are also trying it out.

Cameren Dolecheck • Jan 22 '20

Thanks for showing this. I'd been using Fira Code for about a year. This seems like a good step forward.

Also, that is the best typeface marketing website I've ever seen.

Tomek Poniatowicz • Jan 22 '20

We have been using Fira Code too and we were shocked that this one seems to be even better :P
PS: You are totally right - this landing is awesome :)

Vaibhav Khulbe • Jan 21 '20

Definitely worth a try! I'm currently in love with Dank Mono and Fira Code.

Mattias Cibien • Jan 21 '20

Did not try Jerbrains Mono at the moment. I guess I'll give it a go and compare it to my Cascadia Code which at the moment is my font for both IDEs and terminal