5 monospaced fonts with cool coding ligatures | Programming ligatures
I’dalwaysusedtheMonacofontandSublimeTextforcodingbutIrecentlydecidedtoswitchtoVSCode.ThatchangealsoledmetoexploremonospacedfontssuitableforcodingasIworkedoncustomisingmyVSCodetheme.Atsomepoint,IfoundFiraCodeandlovedthefactthatithadcodingligatures,soImadetheswitch.Thatwasn’tlongago,butIrecentlydidevenmoreresearchintomonospacedfontsandfoundmynewfavourite,youcanseeitatthebottomofthisarticle.HerearethefivefontsIconsideredthebest,allofthemarefreetodownloadanduse.FiraCodeThisisareallycoolmonospace...
At some point, I found Fira Code and loved the fact that it had coding ligatures, so I made the switch. That wasn’t long ago, but I recently did even more research into monospaced fonts and found my new favourite, you can see it at the bottom of this article. Here are the five fonts I considered the best, all of them are free to download and use.
Fira CodeThis is a really cool monospaced font based on Fira Mono from Mozilla. I wanted to have it first on the list as I used it for quite a while and I want to compare all others to it. It also seems that it’s become quite popular since its release so a lot of you may be using it. Perfect reason for using it as a baseline.
This is what Fira Code looks like...