Monospaced Font with Programming Ligatures

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Don't Use Programming Ligatures Font

Ligature font means it combines a sequence of 2 or more characters and display them as a single glyph. e.g. -> is displayed as .

Fira Code began the code ligature fad of zoomers, around 2014.

Ligature font is no good. You want to see char as is, not seeing middlemen. It adds complexity for a little prettiness.

If you wanna see pretty characters such as lambda displayed as λ, use a programing language that allow unicode in name or operators directly.

Fira Code font ligature 2025-12-04 zRHht
Fira Code font ligature 2025-12-04 zRHht https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Monospaced Font for Coders