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## Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures
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< img src = "./extras/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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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.
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### Download & Install
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< a href = "https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/4/Fira_Code_v4.zip" > < img src = "./extras/download.png" width = "520" height = "130" > < / a >
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Then:
- < a href = "https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki" > How to Install</ a >
- < a href = "https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki#troubleshooting" > Troubleshooting</ a >
- < a href = "https://twitter.com/FiraCode" > News & Updates</ a >
### Support
< a href = "https://github.com/sponsors/tonsky" target = "_blank" > < img src = "./extras/sponsor.png" > < / a >
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.
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< img src = "./extras/ligatures.png" width = "754" height = "1326" >
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Fira Code comes with huge variety of arrows. Even better: you can make them as long as you like and combine start/middle/end fragments however you want!
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< img src = "./extras/arrows.png" width = "754" height = "799" >
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Fira Code is not only about ligatures. Some fine-tuning is done for punctuation and frequent letter pairs.
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< img src = "./extras/typographics.png" width = "754" height = "649" >
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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 )
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< img src = "./extras/stylistic_sets.png" width = "754" height = "391" >
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Being programming font, Fira Code has fantastic support for ASCII/box drawing, powerline and other forms of console UIs.
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< img src = "./extras/console.png" width = "754" height = "357" >
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Unicode coverage makes Fira Code great choice for mathematical writing.
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< img src = "./extras/math.png" width = "754" height = "289" >
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### How does it look?
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< img src = "./extras/samples.png" width = "754" height = "1068" >
< img src = "./extras/samples2.png" width = "754" height = "1257" >
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### Editor compatibility list
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| Works | Doesn’ t work |
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|-------|----------------|
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| **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** |
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| **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 )) |
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| **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)) |
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| **BBEdit/TextWrangler** (v. 11 only, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/BBEdit-instructions )) | **Geany** (Windows) |
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| **Brackets** (with [this plugin ](https://github.com/polo2ro/firacode-in-brackets )) | **Godot** ([issue](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/9961)) |
| **Chocolat** | **gVim** (Windows [workaround ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/462 )) |
| **CLion** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) | **IDLE** |
| **Cloud9** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Cloud9-Instructions)) | **KDevelop 4** |
| **Coda 2** | **MATLAB** |
| **CodeLite** | **Monkey Studio IDE** |
| **Eclipse** (macOS 4.7+, Linux) | **UltraEdit** |
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| **elementary Code** | |
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| **Geany** (macOS) |
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| **gEdit / Pluma** |
| **GNOME Builder** |
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| **GoormIDE** ([instructions](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/GoormIDE-Instructions)) |
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| **IntelliJ IDEA** (2016.2+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Intellij-products-instructions )) |
| **Kate, KWrite** |
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| **KDevelop 5+** |
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| **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** |
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| **NeoVim-gtk** |
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| **NetBeans** |
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| **Notepad** (Windows) |
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| **Notepad++** (with a [workaround ](https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287#issuecomment-256638098 )) |
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| **Notepad3** ([instructions](https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues/361#issuecomment-365977420))|
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| **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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| **Scribus** (1.5.3+) |
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| **SublimeText** (3146+) |
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| **Spyder IDE** (only with Qt5) |
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| **SuperCollider 3** |
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| **TextAdept** (Linux, macOS) |
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| **TextEdit** |
| **TextMate 2** |
| **VimR** ([instructions](https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/wiki#ligatures)) |
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| **Visual Studio** (2015+, [instructions ](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Visual-Studio-Instructions )) |
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| **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** |
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| **Xcode** (8.0+, otherwise [with plugin ](https://github.com/robertvojta/LigatureXcodePlugin )) |
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| **Xi** |
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| Probably work: **Smultron, Vico** | Under question: **Code::Blocks IDE** |
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### Terminal compatibility list
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|--------------------|--------------------|
| **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) |
| **st** ([patch](https://st.suckless.org/patches/ligatures/)) |
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### Browser support
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```html
<!-- HTML -->
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< link rel = "stylesheet" href = "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@4/distr/fira_code.css" >
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```
```css
/* CSS */
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@import url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@4/distr/fira_code.css);
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```
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```css
/* Specify in CSS */
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code { font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace; }
@supports (font-variation-settings: normal) {
code { font-family: 'Fira Code VF', monospace; }
}
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```
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- IE 10+, Edge Legacy: enable with `font-feature-settings: "calt";`
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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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- [Web Maker ](https://webmakerapp.com/ )
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- [FromScratch ](https://fromscratch.rocks/ )
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- [PEP20.org ](https://pep20.org/ )
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### Alternatives
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Free monospaced fonts with ligatures:
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- [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/ )
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### Building Fira Code locally
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In case you want to alter FiraCode.glyphs and build OTF/TTF/WOFF files yourself, this is setup I use on macOS:
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```bash
# install all required build tools
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./script/bootstrap
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# build the font files
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./script/build
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# install OTFs to ~/Library/Fonts
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./script/install
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```
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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 )
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- Inspired by: [Hasklig ](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig )