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148 lines
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## Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures
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<img src="http://s.tonsky.me/imgs/fira_code_logo.svg">
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### Problem
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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.
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### Solution
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#### [Download v1.204](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/1.204/FiraCode_1.204.zip) · [How to install](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki) · [News & updates](https://twitter.com/FiraCode)
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Fira Code is an extension of the Fira Mono font containing a set of 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.
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<img src="./showcases/all_ligatures.png" />
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### Code examples
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Ruby:
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<img src="./showcases/ruby.png" />
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JavaScript:
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<img src="./showcases/javascript.png" />
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Erlang:
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<img src="./showcases/erlang.png" />
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Elixir:
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<img src="/showcases/elixir.png" />
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Go:
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<img src="./showcases/go.png" />
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LiveScript:
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<img src="./showcases/livescript.png" />
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Clojure:
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<img src="./showcases/clojure.png" />
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### Terminal support
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| Works | Doesn’t work |
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| ---------------- | ------------------ |
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| **Black Screen** | **Cmder** |
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| **Butterfly** | **ConEmu** |
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| **Hyper.app** | **GNOME Terminal** |
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| **Konsole** | **iTerm 2** ([coming in 3.1](https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3568#note_13118332)) |
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| **QTerminal** | **mate-terminal** |
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| **Terminal.app** (OS X default terminal) | **mintty**
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| **Termux** (Android terminal emulator) | **PuTTY**
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| | **rxvt** |
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| | **gtkterm, guake, LXTerminal, sakura, Terminator, xfce4-terminal,** and other libvte-based terminals ([bug report](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584160)) |
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### Editor support
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| Works | Doesn’t work |
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| ----- | -------------- |
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| **Anjuta** (unless at the EOF) | **Arduino IDE** |
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| **AppCode** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) | **Adobe Dreamweaver** |
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| **Atom** 1.1 or newer ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Atom-instructions)) | **Eclipse** (Mac and Win, [vote here](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=398656)) |
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| **BBEdit/TextWrangler** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/BBEdit-instructions)) | Standalone **Emacs** ([workaround](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Setting-up-Emacs)) |
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| **Brackets** (with [this plugin](https://github.com/polo2ro/firacode-in-brackets)) | **gVim** |
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| **Chocolat** | **IDLE** |
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| **CLion** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) | **KDevelop 4** |
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| **Cloud9** | **Monkey Studio IDE** |
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| **Coda 2** | **Notepad++** |
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| **CodeLite** | **SublimeText** ([vote here](http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/1030059-does-sublimetext-support-programming-ligatures-fontlike-fira-code/)) |
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| **Eclipse** (Linux) |
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| **Geany** |
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| **gEdit / Pluma** |
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| **GNOME Builder** |
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| **IntelliJ IDEA** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) |
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| **Kate, KWrite** |
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| **Komodo** |
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| **Leafpad** |
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| **LibreOffice** |
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| **LightTable** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/LightTable-instructions)) |
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| **LINQPad** |
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| **MacVim** 7.4 or newer ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/MacVim-instructions)) |
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| **Mancy** |
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| **Meld** |
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| **Mousepad** |
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| **NetBeans** |
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| **Notepad** (Win) |
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| **PhpStorm** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) |
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| **PyCharm** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) |
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| **QtCreator** |
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| **Rider** |
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| **RStudio** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/RStudio-instructions)) |
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| **RubyMine** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) |
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| **Scratch** |
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| **Spyder IDE** (only with Qt5) |
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| **TextAdept** (Linux, Mac) |
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| **TextEdit** |
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| **TextMate 2** |
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| **VimR** ([instructions](https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/wiki#ligatures)) |
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| **Visual Studio 2015** |
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| **Visual Studio 2017** |
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| **Visual Studio Code** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions)) |
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| **WebStorm** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) |
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| **Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop** |
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| **Xcode** (with [this plugin](https://github.com/robertvojta/LigatureXcodePlugin)) |
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| Probably work: **Smultron, Vico** | Under question: **Code::Blocks IDE** |
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### Browser support
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- IE 10+, Edge: enable with `font-feature-settings: "calt" 1;`
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- Firefox
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- Safari
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- Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Opera)
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- ACE
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- CodeMirror (enable with `font-variant-ligatures: contextual;`)
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### Projects using Fira Code
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- All [JetBrains products](https://www.jetbrains.com/)
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- [CodePen](https://codepen.io/)
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- [Blink Shell](http://www.blink.sh/)
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- [Klipse](http://app.klipse.tech/)
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- [IlyaBirman.net](http://ilyabirman.net/)
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- [EvilMartians.com](https://evilmartians.com/)
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### Alternatives
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Other monospaced fonts with ligatures:
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- [Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) (free)
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- [PragmataPro](http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm) (€59)
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- [Monoid](http://larsenwork.com/monoid/) (free)
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- [Fixedsys Excelsior](https://github.com/kika/fixedsys) (free)
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- [Iosevka](https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/) (free)
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- [DejaVu Sans Code](https://github.com/SSNikolaevich/DejaVuSansCode) (free)
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### Credits
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- Author: Nikita Prokopov [@nikitonsky](https://twitter.com/nikitonsky)
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- Based on: [Fira Mono](https://github.com/mozilla/Fira)
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- Inspired by: [Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig)
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- Software: [Glyphs 2](https://glyphsapp.com) (thx Georg Seifert for a license)
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