#VISUAL STUDIO CODE FONT RECOMMENDATION DOWNLOAD#

When it comes to legibility, Fira Code does a really good job. This is another property that makes it a good baseline to compare other fonts to.įira Code’s x-height is quite standard, perfect for comparing with other fonts. Not small, not large, somewhere in between.

For example, it even has a Code’s x-height is what I would call “regular”. If not the most, definitely the widest range of all the different ligatures supported. It seems that from all five fonts in this article Fira Code has the most ligatures. This is what Fira Code looks like in action. Perfect reason for using it as a baseline. It also seems that it’s become quite popular since its release so a lot of you may be using it. I wanted to have it first on the list as I used it for quite a while and I want to compare all others to it. This is a really cool monospaced font based on Fira Mono from Mozilla.

#VISUAL STUDIO CODE FONT RECOMMENDATION DOWNLOAD#

Here are the five fonts I considered the best, all of them are free to download and use. That wasn’t long ago, but I recently did even more research into monospaced fonts and found my new favourite, you can see it at the bottom of this article. That change also led me to explore monospaced fonts suitable for coding as I worked on customising my VS Code theme.Īt some point, I found Fira Code and loved the fact that it had coding ligatures, so I made the switch. I’d always used the Monaco font and Sublime Text for coding but I recently decided to switch to VS Code.

Visual studio code font recommendation