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Sergey Kislyakov
Sergey Kislyakov

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JetBrains Mono

For those who've missed: JetBrains released a new font. It's called "JetBrains Mono" and it's open-source as well. It supports ligatures, 143 languages (wide range of Unicode characters) and it looks good (imo).

It's going to be the default font in IDEA 2020.1 (and its "forks": AppCode, PyCharm, etc).

GitHub logo JetBrains / JetBrainsMono

JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

official JetBrains project

JetBrains Mono: a typeface made for developers

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JetBrains Mono is available as a standalone download, and is also bundled in all JetBrains IDEs. Discover more font features & design on its web page.

Default version of JetBrains Mono comes with OpenType features and ligatures (which can always be toggled on & off in the settings). If your IDE doesn’t support OpenType, use a special version of the font — JetBrains Mono NL, which doesn’t include any ligatures.

Installation

JetBrains IDEs

The most recent version of JetBrains Mono ships with your JetBrains IDE starting with v2019.3.

Select JetBrains Mono in the IDE settings: go to Preferences/SettingsEditorFont, and then select JetBrains Mono from the Font dropdown.

Brew (macOS only)

Install it using the font-jetbrains-mono cask:

brew install --cask font-jetbrains-mono
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Manual installation

On Mac/Windows:

  1. Download font.
  2. Unzip the archive and install the font
    • Mac

Demo, characters table, comparisons with other fonts, and more: here.

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