Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures

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

Download v1.206 · How to install · Troubleshooting · News & updates

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.

Code examples

Ruby:

JavaScript:

PHP:

Erlang:

Elixir:

Go:

LiveScript:

Clojure:

Swift:

Terminal support

Works	Doesn’t work
Butterfly	Alacritty
crosh (ChromeOS, instructions)	Windows Console (conhost.exe)
Hyper.app	Cmder
iTerm 2 (3.1+)	ConEmu
Kitty	GNOME Terminal
Konsole	mate-terminal
mintty (partial support 2.8.3+)	PuTTY
QTerminal	rxvt
Terminal.app	ZOC (Windows)
Termux	gtkterm, guake, LXTerminal, sakura, Terminator, xfce4-terminal, and other libvte-based terminals (bug report)
Token2Shell/MD
upterm
Windows Terminal
ZOC (macOS)

Editor support

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)	Eclipse (Win, vote here)
Atom 1.1 or newer (instructions)	Standalone Emacs (workaround)
BBEdit/TextWrangler (v. 11 only, instructions)	gVim (Windows workaround)
Brackets (with this plugin)	IDLE
Chocolat	KDevelop 4
CLion (2016.2+, instructions)	Monkey Studio IDE
Cloud9 (instructions)
Coda 2
CodeLite
Eclipse (Mac 4.7+, Linux)
elementary Code
Geany
gEdit / Pluma
GNOME Builder
GoormIDE (instructions)
IntelliJ IDEA (2016.2+, instructions)
Kate, KWrite
Komodo
Leafpad
LibreOffice
LightTable (instructions)
LINQPad
MacVim 7.4 or newer (instructions)
Mancy
Meld
Mousepad
NeoVim-gtk
NetBeans
Notepad (Win)
Notepad++ (with a workaround)
PhpStorm (2016.2+, instructions)
PyCharm (2016.2+, instructions)
QtCreator
Rider
RStudio (instructions)
RubyMine (2016.2+, instructions)
Scratch
Scribus (1.5.3+)
SublimeText (3146+)
Spyder IDE (only with Qt5)
SuperCollider 3
TextAdept (Linux, Mac)
TextEdit
TextMate 2
VimR (instructions)
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2017 (instructions)
Visual Studio Code (instructions)
WebStorm (2016.2+, instructions)
Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop
Xcode (8.0+, otherwise with plugin)
Probably work: Smultron, Vico	Under question: Code::Blocks IDE

Browser support

<!-- HTML -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@1.206/distr/fira_code.css">

/* CSS */
@import url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@1.206/distr/fira_code.css);

/* Specify in CSS */
font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace;

• IE 10+, Edge: enable with font-feature-settings: "calt" 1;
• Firefox
• Safari
• Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Opera)
• ACE
• CodeMirror (enable with font-variant-ligatures: contextual;)

Projects using Fira Code

• All JetBrains products
• CodePen
• Blink Shell
• Klipse
• IlyaBirman.net
• EvilMartians.com
• Web Maker
• FromScratch
• PEP20.org

Alternatives

Other monospaced fonts with ligatures:

• Hasklig (free)
• PragmataPro (€59)
• Monoid (free)
• Fixedsys Excelsior (free)
• Iosevka (free)
• DejaVu Sans Code (free)

Building

On macOS:

sudo easy_install pip
pip install virtualenv --user
python -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install gftools
pip install fontmake
brew install ttfautohint
brew install woff2
brew tap bramstein/webfonttools
brew install sfnt2woff-zopfli

Run ./build.sh

Credits

• Author: Nikita Prokopov @nikitonsky
• Based on: Fira Mono
• Inspired by: Hasklig