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firacode

v6.2.0

Published

Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures

Downloads

6,985

Readme

Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures

Fira Code

Problem

Programmers use a lot of symbols, often encoded with several characters. For the human brain, sequences like ->, <= or := are single logical tokens, even if they take two or three characters on the screen. Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one. Ideally, all programming languages should be designed with full-fledged Unicode symbols for operators, but that’s not the case yet.

Solution

Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, ligatures allow us to correct spacing.

Download & Install

Then:

Support

Fira Code is a personal, free-time project with no funding and a huge feature request backlog. If you love it, consider supporting its development via GitHub Sponsors or Patreon. Any help counts!

What’s in the box?

Left: ligatures as rendered in Fira Code. Right: same character sequences without ligatures.

Fira Code comes with a huge variety of arrows. Even better: you can make them as long as you like and combine start/middle/end fragments however you want!

Fira Code is not only about ligatures. Some fine-tuning is done for punctuation and frequent letter pairs.

Fira Code comes with a few different character variants, so that everyone can choose what’s best for them. How to enable

Some ligatures can be altered or enabled using stylistic sets/character variants:

Being a programming font, Fira Code has fantastic support for ASCII/box drawing, powerline and other forms of console UIs:

Fira Code is the first programming font to offer dedicated glyphs to render progress bars:

In action:

We hope more programming fonts will adopt this convention and ship their own versions.

Unicode coverage makes Fira Code a great choice for mathematical writing:

How does it look?

Editor compatibility list

| Works | Doesn’t work | |-------|----------------| | Abricotine | Arduino IDE | | Android Studio (2.3+, instructions) | Adobe Dreamweaver | | Anjuta (unless at the EOF) | Delphi IDE | | AppCode (2016.2+, instructions) | Standalone Emacs (workaround) | | Atom 1.1 or newer (instructions) | Godot (issue) | | BBEdit/TextWrangler (v. 11 only, instructions) | IDLE | | Brackets (with this plugin) | KDevelop 4 | | Chocolat | Monkey Studio IDE | | CLion (2016.2+, instructions) | UltraEdit | | Cloud9 (instructions) | | Coda 2 | | CodeLite | | CodeRunner | | CotEditor | | Eclipse | | elementary Code | | Geany (1.37+) | | gEdit / Pluma | | GNOME Builder | | GoormIDE (instructions) | | gVim (Windows, GTK) | | IntelliJ IDEA (2016.2+, instructions) | | Kate, KWrite | | KDevelop 5+ | | Komodo | | Leafpad | | LibreOffice | | LightTable (instructions) | | LINQPad | | MacVim 7.4 or newer (instructions) | | Mancy | | MATLAB (instructions) | | Meld | | Mousepad | | NeoVim-gtk | | NetBeans | | Notepad (Windows) | | Notepad++ (with a workaround) | | Notepad3 (instructions)| | Nova | | PhpStorm (2016.2+, instructions) | | PyCharm (2016.2+, instructions) | | QOwnNotes (21.16.6+) | | QtCreator | | Rider | | RStudio (instructions) | | RubyMine (2016.2+, instructions) | | Scratch | | Scribus (1.5.3+) | | SublimeText (3146+) | | Spyder IDE (only with Qt5) | | SuperCollider 3 | | TextAdept (Linux, macOS) | | TextEdit | | TextMate 2 | | VimR (instructions) | | Visual Studio (2015+, instructions) | | Visual Studio Code (instructions) | | WebStorm (2016.2+, instructions) | | Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop | | Xcode (8.0+, otherwise with plugin) | | Xi | | Probably work: Smultron, Vico | Under question: Code::Blocks IDE |

Terminal compatibility list

| Platform | Works | Doesn’t work | |----------------|-------|--------------| | macOS | Hyper (see #3607)iTerm 2KittyTerminal.appZOC | Alacritty | | Windows | Hyper (see #3607)MinttyToken2ShellWindows Terminal | AlacrittyCmderConEmuPuTTYWindows ConsoleZOC | | Linux | Hyper (see #3607)KittyKonsoleQTerminalTermuxst (patch) | AlacrittyGNOME Terminallibvte-based terminals (bug report): gtktermguakeLXTerminal sakuraTerminatorxfce4-terminalmate-terminalrxvtterminologyxterm | ChromeOS | crosh (instructions) | |

Browser support

<!-- HTML -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/distr/fira_code.css">
/* CSS */
@import url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/distr/fira_code.css);
/* Specify in CSS */
code { font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace; }

@supports (font-variation-settings: normal) {
  code { font-family: 'Fira Code VF', monospace; }
}
  • IE 10+, Edge Legacy: enable with font-feature-settings: "calt";
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Opera)
  • ACE
  • CodeMirror (enable with font-variant-ligatures: contextual;)

Projects using Fira Code

Alternatives

Free monospaced fonts with ligatures:

Paid monospaced fonts with ligatures:

Building Fira Code locally

In case you want to alter FiraCode.glyphs and build OTF/TTF/WOFF files yourself, this is the setup I use on macOS:

# install all required build tools
./script/bootstrap_macos.sh

# build the font files
./script/build.sh

# install OTFs to ~/Library/Fonts
cp distr/otf/*.otf ~/Library/Fonts

Alternatively, you can build Fira Code using Docker:

# install dependencies in a container and build the font files
make

# package the font files from dist/ into a zip
make package

Credits