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I've been using Fira Code[0] which supports ligatures and (in addition to being a nice looking monospace font) it makes reading code with those symbols so much

I've been using Fira Code[0] which supports ligatures and (in addition to being a nice looking monospace font) it makes reading code with those symbols so much nicer. I mainly write Python and that generally uses a pretty limited set of special symbols, but it really does make a difference when you see ≤ rather than <= and 'long equals' instead of == etc. I definitely recommend it. I'd love to see ligature/unicode support rolled out more widely, symbols allow for more easy differentiation and they're so nice to look at when you do have them.

evincarofautumn 9y ago
I’ve tried Fira Code before, and I think it goes a bit too far honestly. It’s nice that it preserves character widths, but ideally I’d like to get away from monospaced fonts as well—they’re pretty much just a holdover from the technical limitations of typewriters and text displays. The main reason I don’t use proportional-width typefaces in programming is that I like to work in a text-only terminal (to avoid distraction) and that the ASCII-art approximations of symbols tend not to look very good.
TeMPOraL 9y ago
Interesting idea to have it solved in a font. For now, I've been using Emacs configured in a way to replace e.g. the word "lambda" with a symbol "λ" for display only - i.e. the original text stays in the text file, but on the screen, it gets rendered as a pretty version. I recall Haskell folks developed a lot of such replacements for mathematical symbols, too, but I can't get a proper Unicode font that would make them readable at the sizes I use (I prefer rather small text for code, so I can see more of it at the same time).