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[โ€“] ndr@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ligatures in Fira Code Nerd are my favorite feature.

[โ€“] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May I ask why? I'm not loving ligatures :[

I gave Julia's and Fira's ligatures a try but no dice, it feels so super counterintuitive ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] ndr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's definitely a personal preference thing. I just think they look cool and make it a bit easier to skim read large sections of code (assuming you have ligatures often in the code). They have lots of examples here: https://github.com/Trzcin/Fira-Code-Nerd

Anyway, you can still use that font without the ligatures, if that's not your thing :p

[โ€“] erre@feddit.win 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing. A good read, the quick comparisons were awesome. I landed on Fira and Hack a while ago and have been happy. Judging by the comparisons in the article, I gotta give JetBrains Mono a try though ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks a bunch! Yeah, that sounds about right, but also Julia and since some folks on Mastodon [1] told me also 0xProto ๐Ÿ˜‚! Welcome to the rabbit hole!

[1] https://mastodon.social/@jdsalaro/110632707789750123

[โ€“] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0xProto looks very nice, thanks! But of course no comparison is complete without Iosevka. And it's so customizable it won't be complete even then...

Here's the build I use:

[โ€“] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Spoiler alert: you're the second person to suggest Iosevka, so I just added it to the comparison ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

I must say I don't love it's narrowness, but it's really well made !

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