This font has been my daily driver for at least a year.
It has some similarities with Pragmata Pro (my previous font), but has evolved to have its own personality now.
I build a custom version of the font with this command-line:
$ make custom-config design='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low v-at-short v-zero-dotted term' && make custom
- Disabled ligatures (I don't like them for my coding font)
- Underscore below the baseline (it is called underscore, after all)
- Tilde and asterisk centered vertically
- Zero with dots through it
- Fira Sans style @ symbol.
Sample: http://i.imgur.com/Hq4X7oV.png
Why do you dislike ligatures in your coding font? Just curious.
Not the commenter you're asking to, but ligatures, to me, are a print thing. They are not nice on the computer screen. I'm kind-of fine with fi and ffi with variable-width fonts, but the rest is geekery (which is fine in itself, but not practical).
With print, you have to think about kerning and the flow of the ink, and the DPI of the printer, and many other variables, and some ligatures help with that (fi). Then there are some letter strings that appear consequently very often (e.g. st), in which case if you're cutting your fonts out of metal cubes, it's practical to have a single character for those strings. They are not, basically, of help to the reader, but instead to the typesetter / the machine. But you don't spend ink or metal on a computer screen, so the ligatures are just there for the sake of it.
With monospace fonts, well, because there's no kerning (each character takes up equal space), there's no way that normally any bits of the letters could coincide, so all the ligatures are forced and artificial there.
- The submitted font - scroll down to "Ligation sets" https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ (note that they only show symbols)
- https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
- https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig
I think people using a programming language with a more math-like notation probably benefit much more than those using "normal" languages.