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tux0r

I am currently evaluating Fira Code in Android Studio and Visual Studio (both of which I am required to use for certain tasks). I like the obvious visual distinctions of operators, but I am unhappy with the ASCII characters. Droid Sans Mono looks better in my opinion.

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Slavius

Sure,

the benefit of free fonts is you can fork them. I for example prefer dotted zeroes instead of slashed and in terminal I always pick a font with dotted zeroes thanks to various forks (github.com/powerline/fonts).

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Saurabh Sharma • Edited

I have seen someone tweaked Droid Sans Mono to support ligatures too. github.com/abogoyavlensky/DroidCode

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tux0r • Edited

Oh, that's nice. Thank you!

edit: Hmm, no ligatures in Visual Studio. I'll check that tomorrow.

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Slavius

I must admit after trying it for few days this Droid Code with ligatures does improve readability in few cases for me.

Thanks for bringing it in!

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Saurabh Sharma

thank the actual developer!

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tux0r

Thanks, actual developer!