<story><title>Programming Fonts</title><url>https://www.programmingfonts.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rychco</author><text>I strongly dislike the trend towards ligatures by default in newer fonts. Maybe it’s because I learned without them, but I find that the readability of code is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; worse with ligatures.&lt;p&gt;My personal favorite fonts at the moment are Jetbrains Mono &amp;amp; MonoLisa (both with ligatures disabled of course)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use ligatures only because the font is the wrong level of the stack for doing cute things like this. I could totally get behind e.g. combining `-&amp;gt;` into a Unicode arrow, but if I&amp;#x27;m writing the string `&amp;quot;-&amp;gt;&amp;quot;` then I want that to be displayed verbatim. That requires parsing (or at least lexing) the code, which fonts can&amp;#x27;t do (and if they could, I&amp;#x27;d be horrified). IMO, it should be the responsibility of editors and IDEs to do this sort of visual substitution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Programming Fonts</title><url>https://www.programmingfonts.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rychco</author><text>I strongly dislike the trend towards ligatures by default in newer fonts. Maybe it’s because I learned without them, but I find that the readability of code is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; worse with ligatures.&lt;p&gt;My personal favorite fonts at the moment are Jetbrains Mono &amp;amp; MonoLisa (both with ligatures disabled of course)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toastal</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re not alone. Some typographers agree: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practicaltypography.com&amp;#x2F;ligatures-in-programming-fonts-hell-no.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practicaltypography.com&amp;#x2F;ligatures-in-programming-fon...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a userstyle you can turn off ligatures in your browser for code blocks. The trend isn&amp;#x27;t just editors, but some developers want to push it on their audience in their blog too. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;font-variant-ligatures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;font-varian...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>