Font made for programming

Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations.

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.

That quote sums it up better than I can. If you still don't understand what it really does, I use Fira Code on my blog.

See the difference between Fira Code and Monospace below:

if(number !== null) { throw new Error("Number is null!"); } if(number <= 0 || number >= 100) { throw new Error("Number is out of bounds!"); } if(number !== null) { throw new Error("Number is null!"); } if(number <= 0 || number >= 100) { throw new Error("Number is out of bounds!"); }

It's such a huge difference, I love it and I think you would too if you code a lot.

Here's how you can add it to your code editor: Editor Compability List