Fira Code - Font with programming ligatures 〽️

Source

This article is based on the official Fira Code documentation on GitHub .

Installing

MacOS

In the downloaded TTF folder:

1. Select all font files
2. Right click and select Open (alternatively Open With Font Book)
3. Select "Install Font"

or

• Use brew and cask:

Not officially supported, might install outdated version

  brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
  brew cask install font-fira-code

Linux

• Install a package available for your distribution following the instructions

or

• In the ttf folder double-click each font file and click “Install font”; see “Manual Installation” if double-clicking doesn't work

FreeBSD

• Using pkg(8): pkg install firacode

or

• Using ports: cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/firacode && make install clean

Windows

• In the ttf folder, double-click each font file, click “Install font”; to install all at once, select all files, right-click, and choose “Install”

or

• Use chocolatey: choco install firacode-ttf

• Use scoop:

Run as administrator

  scoop bucket add nerd-fonts
  scoop install FiraCode

How to enable ligatures

You need to explicitly enable ligatures support in following editors:

• Atom
• BBEdit
• Brackets
• ChromeOS
• Cloud9
• Emacs
• Jetbrains' products (IntelliJ, etc)
• LaTeX
• LightTable
• MacVim
• Sublimetext
• VS Code

For other editors it must be enough to simply select Fira Code as your font of choice. Full list of supported editors

Example in VSCode

All ligatures included

Thanks for reading me. 😊