Comparing the new Cascadia Code font to Fira Code v2
As part of the new windows terminal, Microsoft has released a new monospaced font with ligatures support that is optimized for console usage and code: Cascadia Code.
So far, I’ve been using Fira Code as my primary coding font, and I wanted to see how this new font compares to Fira Code.
Cascadia Code supports ligatures, just like Fira Code. Ligatures is a nice feature that can combine multiple adjacent characters into a new, unique symbol. For example, “=>” will be converted to a nice arrow symbol, “!=” will be displayed as “=” with a strike-through line.
I created a small sample code file that makes use of many ligatures.
Here is a comparison of Fira Code (left) and Cascadia Code (right):
Cascadia Code is a nice new font, but I’ll probably stick with Fira Code, as I like it a little bit better (maybe because I’m used to working with it).
By the way, just a few days ago, Fira Code released a new major update, Fira Code v2.
Here is a comparison of Fira Cod v1 and v2:
