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Give ligatures a chance

Slavius on August 14, 2018

What are ligatures anyway? Do you find yourself constantly changing and tweaking your development editor by changing color schemes, font...
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Saurabh Sharma • Edited

I have seen someone tweaked Droid Sans Mono to support ligatures too. github.com/abogoyavlensky/DroidCode

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Slavius

I must admit after trying it for few days this Droid Code with ligatures does improve readability in few cases for me.

Thanks for bringing it in!

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Saurabh Sharma

thank the actual developer!

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Slavius

Sure,

the benefit of free fonts is you can fork them. I for example prefer dotted zeroes instead of slashed and in terminal I always pick a font with dotted zeroes thanks to various forks (github.com/powerline/fonts).

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val.exe

I find Fira code an absolute eyesore, but i found consolas lignaturized (consolas being my favourite font), basically consolas with fira code only in lignatures, and recently jetbrains also released jetbrains mono, best one so far

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Bug

sorry but for (int i = count; i --> 0;) is a sin.

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Slavius

Depends on which God you worship :D

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Dane Hillard

I'm a big fan of Fira Code and have it installed on both PyCharm and iTerm2! I might set it as the default fixed width font in Chrome, too (you can do that!).

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Slavius

Hi Dane,

recently I have discovered a site called NerdFonts.com which hosts a dozen of FOSS ligaturized fonts. They also have their own version of Fira (called Fura due to naming conflict) which has become my primary console font. Maybe you can check it out.

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Davi Oliveira

Hi! What is your color scheme or theme on vscode?