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Ligatures projects on GitHub
Programming fonts featuring ligatures that merge character sequences into single glyphs.
As of , the most-starred Ligatures projects on GitHub are FiraCode (82.1K stars), maple-font (29.3K stars) and cascadia-code (27.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Ligatures repositories with 186.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was maple-font, with +8 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17
+8maple-font
subframe7536/maple-font · ★ 29.3KMaple Mono is an open-source monospace font with round corners, smart ligatures, and built-in Nerd-Font icons, made to smooth your coding flow in IDEs and terminals.
Iosevka
be5invis/Iosevka · ★ 23.1KIosevka is an open-source typeface family designed for writing code, using in terminals and preparing technical documents. It comes in sans-serif and slab-serif forms, both monospace and quasi-proportional.
FiraCode
tonsky/FiraCode · ★ 82.1KFira Code is a free monospaced font designed for programmers, which uses ligatures to turn common multi-character symbol sequences (like -> or ==) into single, easier-to-read glyphs.
+3cascadia-code
microsoft/cascadia-code · ★ 27.9KCascadia Code is a monospaced coding font with programming ligatures, bundled with Windows Terminal and now the default font in Visual Studio.
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6 projects · by stars
- 82.1K
#1 · tonsky/FiraCode
FiraCode
Fira Code is a free monospaced font designed for programmers, which uses ligatures to turn common multi-character symbol sequences (like -> or ==) into single, easier-to-read glyphs.
- 29.3K
#2 · subframe7536/maple-fontmaple-font
Maple Mono is an open-source monospace font with round corners, smart ligatures, and built-in Nerd-Font icons, made to smooth your coding flow in IDEs and terminals.
- 27.9K
#3 · microsoft/cascadia-codecascadia-code
Cascadia Code is a monospaced coding font with programming ligatures, bundled with Windows Terminal and now the default font in Visual Studio.
- 4
Iosevka
23.1Kbe5invis/Iosevka · JavaScriptIosevka is an open-source typeface family designed for writing code, using in terminals and preparing technical documents. It comes in sans-serif and slab-serif forms, both monospace and quasi-proportional.
- 5

JetBrainsMono
13.1KJetBrains/JetBrainsMono · ShellJetBrains Mono is a free and open-source monospaced typeface built specifically for developers. It is available as a standalone download and also comes bundled with all JetBrains IDEs.
- 6

Monocraft
11.4KIdreesInc/Monocraft · PythonA free monospaced programming font that recreates the Minecraft UI typeface, with 1500+ glyphs reworked for readability and spacing. It ships as an installable .ttc file.
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