{"id":11248,"date":"2024-01-21T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=11248"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T10:16:05","slug":"programming-fonts-with-ligatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/01\/21\/programming-fonts-with-ligatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming fonts with ligatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent fad in programming communities is monospaced programming fonts full of cool ligatures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example GitHub has <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topics\/ligatures\">92 repositories marked as such<\/a>; among them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tonsky\/FiraCode\">FiraCode<\/a> Free monospaced font with programming ligatures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/be5invis\/Iosevka\">Iosevka<\/a>  Versatile typeface for code, from code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JetBrains\/JetBrainsMono\">JetBrainsMono<\/a> JetBrains Mono \u2013 the free and open-source typeface for developers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IdreesInc\/Monocraft\">Monocraft<\/a> A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/subframe7536\/maple-font\">maple-font<\/a> Maple Mono: Open source monospace font with round corner, ligatures and Nerd-Font for IDE and command line.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rubjo\/victor-mono\">victor-mono<\/a>  A free programming font with cursive italics and ligatures. Donations welcome \u2764\ufe0f See its show case on <a href=\"https:\/\/rubjo.github.io\/victor-mono\/\">https:\/\/rubjo.github.io\/victor-mono\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabrizioschiavi\/pragmatapro\">PragmataPro<\/a> font is designed to help pros to work better <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fsd.it\/shop\/fonts\/pragmatapro\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.fsd.it\/shop\/fonts\/pragmatapro\/<\/a>  this is particulary awesome, expecially for small size and its retro feeling; it costs 19\u20ac.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mishamyrt\/Lilex\">Lilex<\/a> \ud83e\udd18Open source programming font<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and many others<br \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand Fabrizio when he wrote<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Guys, try to put in my place. Probably you have never attempted to draw fonts and, above all, optimize a font for the screen you can not realize the work that is behind such a project.<br \/>I tried, and I try, in every way a sponsorship or funding to reduce the price of the license, my dream was to offer it for free, but I don&#8217;t found that and I have to sell the license at a price at least partially compensate for the effort involved realize PragmataPro.<br \/>To reduce the price now would be economic suicide for me and misconduct against those who have believed before you and have already paid the amount required.<\/p>\n<cite>Fabrizio Schiavi author of PragmataPro (<a href=\"https:\/\/fsd.it\/shop\/fonts\/pragmatapro\/\">source<\/a>).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckly for us, less for him is the fact that there are so many good enogh fonts with ligatures. But the world is so big, I trust he&#8217;s getting good revenues from his other fonts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">A recent fad in programming communities is monospaced programming fonts full of cool ligatures. For example GitHub has 92 repositories marked as such; among them: I understand Fabrizio when he wrote Guys, try to put in my place. Probably you have never attempted to draw fonts and, above all, optimize a font for the screen&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/01\/21\/programming-fonts-with-ligatures\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fonts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-2Vq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3827,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/02\/25\/3827\/","url_meta":{"origin":11248,"position":0},"title":"Fira code","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2018-02-25","format":false,"excerpt":"FiraCode,\u00a0a Monospaced font with programming ligatures.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fonts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fonts","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/fonts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/firacode-font.png?fit=841%2C476&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/firacode-font.png?fit=841%2C476&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/firacode-font.png?fit=841%2C476&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/firacode-font.png?fit=841%2C476&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11220,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/01\/18\/iosevka-programmer-font\/","url_meta":{"origin":11248,"position":1},"title":"Iosevka programmer font","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2024-01-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif\u00a0+\u00a0slab-serif, monospace\u00a0+\u00a0quasi\u2011proportional typeface family, designed for writing code, using in terminals, and preparing technical documents. 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