FiraCode Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2022
• How do people make the => symbol be together?
  5 projects | reddit.com/r/neovim | 7 Jan 2022

  Something like https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode but you have to have a terminal which supports it (so, no gnome-terminal and no alacritty).

• Getting Fira Code Retina on nvim-qt?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/neovim | 5 Jan 2022

  This https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/1325

• Don't know what to call this.
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/desktops | 2 Jan 2022

  #1 Install Fira Code font And change the system font to it. : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

• How do you guys cope with eye strain?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/AskProgramming | 27 Dec 2021

  I use Firacode becuase i enjoy the font ligatures. takes a little setup in VSCode but it's worth it.

• Can someone recognise this vscode theme?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/VisualStudioCode | 23 Dec 2021

  That would be Fira Code

• Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2021

  I bet ligatures would be unambiguously helpful in programing if they were limited to the presentation layer and controlled by the syntax highlighter.

  For example, the author uses Fira Code[0] as an example of well-intentioned by problematic ligatures. The author says this is bad because (1) it contradicts unicode and (2) the substitutions will be inappropriate sometimes.

  (2) is solved by applying substitutions in semantically relevant places with the syntax highlighter. This would be particularly useful when typing special sequences. If you get the ligature substitution, then you know you don't have a typo.

  (1) is trickier. You want to save a unicode file, and you want to be able to copy text selections that end part way through a ligature. This requires some finesse.

  [0] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2021

  In most cases "copy and paste" still just work (unless the code listing was a screenshot, which is a bad idea anyway for teaching code) and you can learn it that way.

  Also most of the lists of intentionally ligatured operators are pretty small and easy to find reference materials for. For instance Fira Code's big first chart in this section: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#whats-in-the-box

  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2021

  It is possible to only enable the specific ligatures you are interested in if your editor supports it. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

• Dark Lavender - A beautiful and useful VSCode theme
  4 projects | dev.to | 18 Dec 2021

  To emphasize the italic effect, I use Victor Mono for screenshots below. If you prefer non-cursive font, Fira Code, Jetbrain Mono, and Iosevka are some of the best choices. I use Rec Mono, a high-quality variable font that supports many bold levels, ligatures, and four variants.

• Anybody know what font this is
  1 project | reddit.com/r/vim | 7 Dec 2021
• New Dev into Ubuntu
  7 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

  # !/usr/bin/env bash fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts" if [ ! -d "${fonts_dir}" ]; then echo "mkdir -p $fonts_dir" mkdir -p "${fonts_dir}" else echo "Found fonts dir $fonts_dir" fi version=5.2 zip=Fira_Code_v${version}.zip curl --fail --location --show-error https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/${version}/${zip} --output ${zip} unzip -o -q -d ${fonts_dir} ${zip} rm ${zip} echo "fc-cache -f" fc-cache -f

• Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2021
• Macbook Pro m1 external monitor for programming
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/macbookpro | 4 Dec 2021

  Fonts look crisp as can be, Firacode looks beautiful on my 27”

• favorite coding font
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 2 Dec 2021

  Second Fira Code. Here’s the link: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode