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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) · [Troubleshooting](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki#troubleshooting) · [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
Ruby:
< img src = "./showcases/ruby.png" / >
JavaScript:
< img src = "./showcases/javascript.png" / >
Erlang:
< img src = "./showcases/erlang.png" / >
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Elixir:
< img src = "/showcases/elixir.png" / >
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Go:
< img src = "./showcases/go.png" / >
LiveScript:
< img src = "./showcases/livescript.png" / >
Clojure:
< img src = "./showcases/clojure.png" / >
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### Terminal support
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| Works | Doesn’ t work |
| ---------------- | ------------------ |
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| **Black Screen** | **cmd.exe* |
| **Butterfly** | **Cmder** |
| **Hyper.app** | **ConEmu** |
| **Konsole** | **GNOME Terminal** |
| **QTerminal** | **iTerm 2** ([coming in 3.1](https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3568#note_13118332)) |
| **Terminal.app** (OS X default terminal) | **mate-terminal** |
| **Termux** (Android terminal emulator) | **mintty** |
| | **PuTTY** |
| | **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 |
| ----- | -------------- |
| **Anjuta** (unless at the EOF) | **Arduino IDE** |
| **AppCode** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) | **Adobe Dreamweaver** |
| **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 )) |
| **BBEdit/TextWrangler** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/BBEdit-instructions)) | Standalone **Emacs** ([workaround](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Setting-up-Emacs)) |
| **Brackets** (with [this plugin ](https://github.com/polo2ro/firacode-in-brackets )) | **gVim** |
| **Chocolat** | **IDLE** |
| **CLion** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) | **KDevelop 4** |
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| **Cloud9** | **Monkey Studio IDE** |
| **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** |
| **GNOME Builder** |
| **IntelliJ IDEA** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) |
| **Kate, KWrite** |
| **Komodo** |
| **Leafpad** |
| **LibreOffice** |
| **LightTable** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/LightTable-instructions)) |
| **LINQPad** |
| **MacVim** 7.4 or newer ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/MacVim-instructions)) |
| **Mancy** |
| **Meld** |
| **Mousepad** |
| **NetBeans** |
| **Notepad** (Win) |
| **PhpStorm** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) |
| **PyCharm** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) |
| **QtCreator** |
| **Rider** |
| **RStudio** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/RStudio-instructions)) |
| **RubyMine** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) |
| **Scratch** |
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| **Spyder IDE** (only with Qt5) |
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| **TextAdept** (Linux, Mac) |
| **TextEdit** |
| **TextMate 2** |
| **VimR** ([instructions](https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/wiki#ligatures)) |
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| **Visual Studio 2015** |
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| **Visual Studio 2017** |
| **Visual Studio Code** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions)) |
| **WebStorm** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) |
| **Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop** |
| **Xcode** (with [this plugin ](https://github.com/robertvojta/LigatureXcodePlugin )) |
| 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
- 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/ )
- [Klipse ](http://app.klipse.tech/ )
- [IlyaBirman.net ](http://ilyabirman.net/ )
- [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)
- [PragmataPro ](http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm ) (€59)
- [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 )
- Based on: [Fira Mono ](https://github.com/mozilla/Fira )
- Inspired by: [Hasklig ](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig )
- Software: [Glyphs 2 ](https://glyphsapp.com ) (thx Georg Seifert for a license)