A few days ago, Microsoft released a new monospaced font.
It's perfect for Terminal and Visual Studio Code.
The font is open source and licensed under the SIL Open Font License on GitHub.
It means that is very easy to contribute for everyone.
Installation
You can use this new font everywhere.
For example I use it in Terminal, Visual Studio Code and since a few days, in Visual Studio 2019.
You can install the latest version from the official releases page on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases
After the download, you can open the .ttf file and click on "Install".
If you have a previous version of the font, the new version overwrite the old one.
I recommend to uninstall the previous version before the new installation.
Setup Visual Studio Code
To setup Cascadia Code in Visual Studio Code, open the menu from File -> Preferences -> Text Editors -> Font and in the textbox write "Cascadia Code" before the other fonts.
You have to enable the checkbox to enabling the Font Ligatures (see the picture above).
Setup Terminal
From the down arrow on the top of the Terminal window, click on Settings and find your favorite profiles.
In the Font Face json property, write "Cascadia Code" and close Visual Studio.
If you want to know how to create and customize Terminal, check out my post.
Setup Visual Studio 2019
As I mentioned before, you can use Cascadia Code in Visual Studio as well.
From the menu Tools -> Options -> Fonts and Colors, select the font from the properly dropdown.
Font Ligatures in Visual Studio are enabled by default.
Conclusion
I used to setup all my IDE and editors with Fira Code, but now I switched everything to Cascadia Code.
If you want to contribute to the official repository, you can go here and fork the project.
If you are curious, you can read more on the offical release post.
Top comments (19)
After trying this font on my vscode, I switched back to Fira code, but it's a personal choice.
Personally, I Think Cascadia is more "blocky" and visually made it more difficult to understand the code I'm writing. Do you had any problems like me?
Yeah, I'm finding it a bit "heavy", like everything is bold.
There is different weights AFAIK, you can try a lighter than regular weight. I heard someone mention this recently
Yes. Iosvka (github.com/be5invis/Iosevka) is also a great alternate to Fire Code but not Cascadia.
My one qualm is that Cascadia Code doesn't seem to support powerline characters, whereas Fira Code does.
There's a new version of Cascadia Code called Cascadia Code PL which has the powerline characters
I tried it, switched back also. Initially looked good but then noticed the === had no gaps between each character. Might be just my setup, anyone else get this?
That's the font ligatures in action, I think
You can disable it by adding
"editor.fontLigatures": falseto settings.json file
My favorite screen fonts are all Microsoft ones.
A good Free alternative to Georgia is Caris SIL
A good Free alternative to Verdana is Google's Inconsolata
Jetbrains just came out with "Jetbrains Mono" a week or two ago. It's a pretty cool font that I am changing to. I haven't used Cascadia but I'll check it out too. I love all things jetbrains so I am a little bias :)
for those who who is missing the powershell theme icon/font style, use Cascadia Code PL instead of Cascadia Code in setting...
I'm using the latest version of vscode (1.41.1) and there isn't a Font Ligatures checkbox. Instead there is the link "Edit in settings.json" but then what is the attribute name?
As mentioned by someone above:
"editor.fontLigatures": true
Also if you want Powerline characters, you need to download Cascadia Code PL
github.com/adam7/delugia-code/rele... if you want to use nerdfonts.com/
Wow! Nice font! Using now! Fira Code is freeze now.
From my point of view I never hesitate to test a new choice. Thank you