font-FiraCode

Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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

Then:

• How to Install
• Troubleshooting
• News & Updates

Support

Fira Code is a personal, free-time project with no funding and huge feature request backlog. If you love it, consider supporting its development via GitHub Sponsors or Patreon. Any help counts!

What’s in the box?

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

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!

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

Fira Code comes with a few different character variants, so that everyone can choose what’s best for them. How to enable.

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

Unicode coverage makes Fira Code great choice for mathematical writing.

How does it look?

Editor compatibility list

Works	Doesn’t work
Abricotine	Arduino IDE
Android Studio (2.3+, instructions)	Adobe Dreamweaver
Anjuta (unless at the EOF)	Delphi IDE
AppCode (2016.2+, instructions)	Eclipse (Windows, vote here)
Atom 1.1 or newer (instructions)	Standalone Emacs (workaround)
BBEdit/TextWrangler (v. 11 only, instructions)	Geany (Windows)
Brackets (with this plugin)	Godot (issue)
Chocolat	gVim (Windows workaround)
CLion (2016.2+, instructions)	IDLE
Cloud9 (instructions)	KDevelop 4
Coda 2	MATLAB
CodeLite	Monkey Studio IDE
Eclipse (macOS 4.7+, Linux)	UltraEdit
elementary Code
Geany (macOS)
gEdit / Pluma
GNOME Builder
GoormIDE (instructions)
IntelliJ IDEA (2016.2+, instructions)
Kate, KWrite
KDevelop 5+
Komodo
Leafpad
LibreOffice
LightTable (instructions)
LINQPad
MacVim 7.4 or newer (instructions)
Mancy
Meld
Mousepad
NeoVim-gtk
NetBeans
Notepad (Windows)
Notepad++ (with a workaround)
Notepad3 (instructions)
PhpStorm (2016.2+, instructions)
PyCharm (2016.2+, instructions)
QtCreator
Rider
RStudio (instructions)
RubyMine (2016.2+, instructions)
Scratch
Scribus (1.5.3+)
SublimeText (3146+)
Spyder IDE (only with Qt5)
SuperCollider 3
TextAdept (Linux, macOS)
TextEdit
TextMate 2
VimR (instructions)
Visual Studio (2015+, instructions)
Visual Studio Code (instructions)
WebStorm (2016.2+, instructions)
Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop
Xcode (8.0+, otherwise with plugin)
Xi
Probably work: Smultron, Vico	Under question: Code::Blocks IDE

Terminal compatibility list

Works	Doesn’t work
Butterfly	Alacritty
crosh (ChromeOS, instructions)	Windows Console (conhost.exe)
Hyper.app	Cmder
iTerm 2 (3.1+)	ConEmu
Kitty	GNOME Terminal
Konsole	mate-terminal
mintty (partial support 2.8.3+)	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)
upterm
Windows Terminal
ZOC (macOS)
st (patch)

Browser support

<!-- HTML -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@4/distr/fira_code.css">

/* CSS */
@import url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tonsky/FiraCode@4/distr/fira_code.css);

/* Specify in CSS */
code { font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace; }

@supports (font-variation-settings: normal) {
  code { font-family: 'Fira Code VF', monospace; }
}

• IE 10+, Edge Legacy: enable with font-feature-settings: "calt";
• Firefox
• Safari
• Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Opera)
• ACE
• CodeMirror (enable with font-variant-ligatures: contextual;)

Projects using Fira Code

• All JetBrains products
• CodePen
• Blink Shell
• Klipse
• IlyaBirman.net
• EvilMartians.com
• Web Maker
• FromScratch
• PEP20.org

Alternatives

Free monospaced fonts with ligatures:

• Hasklig
• Monoid
• Fixedsys Excelsior
• Iosevka
• DejaVu Sans Code
• Victor Mono
• Cascadia Code
• JetBrains Mono

Paid monospaced fonts with ligatures:

• PragmataPro
• Mono Lisa

Building Fira Code locally

In case you want to alter FiraCode.glyphs and build OTF/TTF/WOFF files yourself, this is setup I use on macOS:

# install all required build tools
./script/bootstrap

# build the font files
./script/build

# install OTFs to ~/Library/Fonts
./script/install

Credits

• Author: Nikita Prokopov @nikitonsky
• Based on: Fira Mono
• Inspired by: Hasklig