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Installing Custom Fonts in Atom, and Why I Chose Operator Mono and Fira Code

Kelly Andrews on February 10, 2017

I couldn't take it any more. I've tried other variants of script like fonts, but nothing looked as crisp and clean as Operator Mono. Fin...
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Eoin Murphy

I won't be forking out $200 for Operator Mono, but I just installed Fira Code and I've got to say thanks! It's beautiful. Just a heads up if you're using VS Code, to enable ligatures, you paste the following into settings.json.

"editor.fontLigatures": true
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Kiliman

I created a project that will add ligatures directly to the Operator Mono font. github.com/kiliman/operator-mono-lig

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Ashaduzzman Akash

sir i cannot use your project pls explain me again

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Kiliman

Hi. Can you create an issue on GitHub with your question? I'll be happy to help!

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Yurii Habrusiev

I'm not sure if $200 font is allowed to be shared on GitLab.

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Kelly Andrews

Probably true. I'll take that down. Didn't even think about it.

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Kelly Andrews

And done.

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Yurii Habrusiev

But Git remembers everything. It's still available from one of the commits 🙂
Btw, interesting tasks - remove file from entire git repo. I found this article about this topic dalibornasevic.com/posts/2-permane...

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Kelly Andrews

Good find. Thanks.

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Kelly Andrews

Found a better one from gitlab - help.github.com/articles/removing-...

Basically the same thing, but easier to follow. Worked like a charm as far as I can tell.

Thanks again for spotting that.

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Jose Gonzalez

Fira Code rules. It's the best font I've come across. I wrote about it a while ago.

First thing after installing an IDE or editor, I set its font to Fira Code.

VS Code in Fira Code is effing sweet. Try it!

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Mohammad Javed

Cool article. Will take a look at this Fira Code font. Is this font available on Sublime Text 2?

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Geek • Edited

As long as you have a font installed on your system, it's available system-wide. Thus, it's available for your sublime text as well.