Ligature Fonts for Coding

Ligatures in Visual Studio Code and Kitty

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Ligature fonts in Visual Studio Code and the terminal using Cascadia Code.

Install the Microsoft ligature font Cascadia Code with:

  • Linux: sudo apt install fonts-cascadia-code
  • macOS: brew install --cask font-cascadia-code

Terminal

Configuration for the Kitty terminal. Add the configuration to kitty.conf and then reload the configuration.

font_family      family='Cascadia Code' variable_name=CascadiaCodeRoman style=Regular

VSCode

In Visual Studio Code, open the configuration and search for ligature. Select Edit in settings.json under Editor: Font ligatures. Update editor.fontLigatures in the json configuration.

"editor.fontLigatures": true
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