FiraCode

## Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures

![Fira Code](./extras/logo.svg)

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### 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

<a href="https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/6.2/Fira_Code_v6.2.zip"><img alt="Fira_Code_v6.2.zip - December 6, 2021 - 2.5 MB" src="./extras/download.png" width="520"></a>

Then:

- [How to Install](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki)
- [Troubleshooting](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki#troubleshooting)
- [News & Updates](https://twitter.com/FiraCode)

### What’s in the box?

Left: ligatures as rendered in Fira Code. Right: same character sequences without ligatures.

<img src="./extras/ligatures.png" width="754">

Fira Code comes with a huge variety of arrows. Even better: you can make them as long as you like and combine start/middle/end fragments however you want!

<img src="./extras/arrows.png" width="754">

Fira Code is not only about ligatures. Some fine-tuning is done for punctuation and frequent letter pairs.

<img src="./extras/typographics.png" width="754">

Fira Code comes with a few different character variants (`cv01`, `cv02`, etc), stylistic sets (`ss01`, `ss02`, etc), and other font features (`zero`, `onum`, `calt`, etc), so that everyone can choose what’s best for them. [How to enable](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylistic-sets)

<img src="./extras/character_variants.png" width="754">

Some ligatures can be altered or enabled using stylistic sets/character variants:

<img src="./extras/ligature_variants.png" width="754">

Being a programming font, Fira Code has fantastic support for ASCII/box drawing, powerline, and other forms of console UIs:

<img src="./extras/console.png" width="754">

Fira Code is the first programming font to offer dedicated glyphs to render progress bars:

<img src="./extras/progress.png" width="754">

In action:

<img src="./extras/progress.gif" width="560">

We hope more programming fonts will adopt this convention and ship their own versions. Implementation detail: there is no way for programs to detect whether a font h