## Fira Code: free 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 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 **Download Fira Code v3** Then: - How to Install - Troubleshooting - News & Updates ### Support Fira Code is a personal, free-time project with no funding and huge [feature request backlog](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues). If you love it, consider supporting its development via [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/tonsky) or [Patreon](https://patreon.com/tonsky). 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 few different character variants, so that everyone can choose what’s best for them. [How to enable](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylistic-sets) In addition to that, Fira Code contains huge variety of Unicode characters well-suited for technical writing, math formulas and terminal UIs. ### Code examples Ruby: JavaScript: PHP: Erlang: Elixir: Go: LiveScript: Clojure: Swift: ### Terminal compatibility list | Works | Doesn’t work | | ------------------ | ------------------ | | **Butterfly** | **Alacritty** | | **crosh** (ChromeOS, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/ChromeOS-Terminal)) | **Windows Console (conhost.exe)** | | **Hyper.app** | **Cmder** | | **iTerm 2** ([3.1+](https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3568#note_13118332)) | **ConEmu** | | **Kitty** | **GNOME Terminal** | | **Konsole** | **mate-terminal** | | **mintty** (partial support [2.8.3+](https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/601))| **PuTTY** | | **QTerminal** | **rxvt** | | **Terminal.app** | **xterm** | | **Termux** | **ZOC** (Windows) | | **Token2Shell/MD** | **gtkterm, guake, LXTerminal, sakura, Terminator, xfce4-terminal,** and other libvte-based terminals ([bug report](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584160)) | | **upterm** | | **Windows Terminal** | | **ZOC** (macOS) | ### Editor compatibility list | Works | Doesn’t work | | ----- | -------------- | | **Abricotine** | **Arduino IDE** | | **Android Studio** (2.3+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) | **Adobe Dreamweaver** | | **Anjuta** (unless at the EOF) | **Delphi IDE** | | **AppCode** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) | **Eclipse** (Windows, [vote here](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=398656)) | | **Atom** 1.1 or newer ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Atom-instructions)) | Standalone **Emacs** ([workaround](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Emacs-instructions)) | | **BBEdit/TextWrangler** (v. 11 only, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/BBEdit-instructions)) | **Geany** (Windows) | | **Brackets** (with [this plugin](https://github.com/polo2ro/firacode-in-brackets)) | **gVim** (Windows [workaround](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/462)) | | **Chocolat** | **IDLE** | | **CLion** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) | **KDevelop 4** | | **Cloud9** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Cloud9-Instructions)) | **MATLAB** | | **Coda 2** | **Monkey Studio IDE** | | **CodeLite** | **UltraEdit** | | **Eclipse** (macOS 4.7+, Linux) | | | **elementary Code** | | | **Geany** (macOS) | | **gEdit / Pluma** | | **GNOME Builder** | | **GoormIDE** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/GoormIDE-Instructions)) | | **IntelliJ IDEA** (2016.2+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions)) | | **Kate, KWrite** | | **KDevelop 5+** | | **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** | | **NeoVim-gtk** | | **NetBeans** | | **Notepad** (Windows) | | **Notepad++** (with a [workaround](https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287#issuecomment-256638098)) | | **Notepad3** ([instructions](https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues/361#issuecomment-365977420))| | **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** | | **Scribus** (1.5.3+) | | **SublimeText** (3146+) | | **Spyder IDE** (only with Qt5) | | **SuperCollider 3** | | **TextAdept** (Linux, macOS) | | **TextEdit** | | **TextMate 2** | | **VimR** ([instructions](https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/wiki#ligatures)) | | **Visual Studio** (2015+, [instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Visual-Studio-Instructions)) | | **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** (8.0+, otherwise [with plugin](https://github.com/robertvojta/LigatureXcodePlugin)) | | Probably work: **Smultron, Vico** | Under question: **Code::Blocks IDE** | ### Browser support ```html ``` ```css /* CSS */ @import url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@3/distr/fira_code.css); ``` ```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 - All [JetBrains products](https://www.jetbrains.com/) - [CodePen](https://codepen.io/) - [Blink Shell](http://www.blink.sh/) - [Klipse](http://app.klipse.tech/) - [IlyaBirman.net](http://ilyabirman.net/) - [EvilMartians.com](https://evilmartians.com/) - [Web Maker](https://webmakerapp.com/) - [FromScratch](https://fromscratch.rocks/) - [PEP20.org](https://pep20.org/) ### Alternatives Other free monospaced fonts with ligatures: - [Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) - [Monoid](http://larsenwork.com/monoid/) - [Fixedsys Excelsior](https://github.com/kika/fixedsys) - [Iosevka](https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/) - [DejaVu Sans Code](https://github.com/SSNikolaevich/DejaVuSansCode) - [Victor Mono](https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/) - [Cascadia Code](https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code) - [JetBrains Mono](https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono) Paid monospaced fonts with ligatures: - [PragmataPro](http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm) - [Mono Lisa](https://monolisa.dev/) ### Building Fira Code locally In case you want to alter FiraCode.glyphs and build OTF/TTF/WOFF files yourself, this is setup I use on macOS: ```bash # install all required build tools ./script/bootstrap # build the font files ./script/build # install OTFs to ~/Library/Fonts ./script/install ``` ### Credits - 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)