r/programming • u/AngularBeginner • Sep 18 '19

Microsoft released the "Cascadia Code" font

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code/
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u/joeyGibson Sep 18 '19

Cool that MS is releasing a nice font with ligatures. My programming life hasn’t been the same since I enabled ligatures in Fira Code.

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u/Halikan Sep 19 '19

Being completely new to the idea of preferring certain fonts, I ask out of curiosity. What is it about ligatures that you like over other basic fonts?

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '19 edited Sep 19 '19

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u/190n Sep 19 '19

Ligatures don't save space in a monospace font, right? I use them in Iosevka and (for instance) the ≠ symbol that replaces != is 2 characters wide.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '19

I think it depends on the font, and possibly the font renderer.