## Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures
#### [Download Fira Code v1.100](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/1.100/FiraCode_1.100.zip)
### Problem
Programmers use a lot of symbols, often encoded with several characters. For human brain sequences like `->`, `<=` or `:=` are single logical token, even if they take two or three places on the screen. Your eye spends 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 Fira Mono font extended with 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.
### Editor support
Do **not** work:
- SublimeText ([vote here](http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/433445-opentype-support-ligatures-curly-quotes-contextual-and-alternate-symbols/))
- Intellij Idea ([vote here](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-127539)), including everything built on top of it (PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm, AppCode, CLion, ReSharper)
- iTerm 2 ([feature request](https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3568))
- OS X Terminal.app
- Emacs ([workaround](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Setting-up-Emacs))
- gVim, MacVim
- Eclipse (Mac and Win, [vote here](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=398656))
- Notepad++
- Kate, Konsole, KWrite in KDE 4
- Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop
Do work:
- Atom (since [1.1](http://blog.atom.io/2015/10/29/atom-1-1-is-out.html), add `atom-text-editor { text-rendering:optimizeLegibility }` to the stylesheet)
- Xcode (with [this plugin](https://github.com/robertvojta/LigatureXcodePlugin))
- Visual Studio
- TextMate 2
- Coda 2
- Eclipse (Linux)
- QtCreator
- LightTable ([instructions](https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/1459#issuecomment-57366504))
- BBEdit — enter this command in a terminal to enable ligatures:
`defaults write com.barebones.bbedit "EnableFontLigatures_Fira Code" -bool YES`
- RStudio
- Chocolat
- Kate, Konsole, KWrite in Plasma/KDE 5
- Kate, Konsole, KWrite in KDE 4 using Debian Jessie or OS X
- Mancy
- TextAdept (Linux, Mac)
Should work (copied from [Hasklig README](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig)):
- Geany
- gEdit
- Smultron
- Vico
### Code examples
Ruby:
JavaScript:
Erlang:
Go:
Haskell:
### Alternatives
Another monospaced fonts with ligatures:
- [Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) (free)
- [PragmataPro](http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm) (€59)
- [Monoid](http://larsenwork.com/monoid/) (free)
### Credits
This work is based on OFL-licensed [Fira Mono font](https://github.com/mozilla/Fira). Original Fira Mono font was not changed, only extended.
Fira Code was inspired by [Hasklig font](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig): Ligatures for Haskell code.
Thanks Georg Seifert for providing a [Glyphs 2](https://glyphsapp.com) license.
### Changelog
#### 1.100
- Fixed calt table conflicts (`----` would incorrectly render as `` `<--` `&&` `||` `=>>` `=/=`
#### 0.1
`>>=` `=<<` `<<=` `->>` `->` `=>` `<<-` `<-`
`===` `==` `<=>` `>=` `<=` `>>` `<<` `!==` `!=` `<>`
`:=` `++` `#(` `#_`
`::` `...` `..` `!!` `//` `/*` `*/` `/>`