Cascadia Code

Microsoft released a new open source font yesterday to go along with their
Windows Terminal project. I wipped up a quick ebuild to use it on my Gentoo
systems.

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My first thoughts are that it is very refeshing to a have a nice new font to
look at. I particularly like the letter spacing. While I've been using [Fira
Code][1] for a while, I've felt it takes just a tad too much spacing between
letters. [Cascadia Code][2] on the other hand feels tight and fun.

The font also supports [ligatures][5] which allows specific combinations of
characters (commonly used in programming) to join together to and become a
single character symbolic of its function.

Unfortunatly, the terminal and editor apps I use on Gentoo don't currently
support ligatures. Regardless, I think it looks quite nice at the moment.

Here is a screenshot: ![screenshot][3]

And you can find my ebuild [here][4]

Tags: fonts, gentoo

[1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
[3]: images/cascadiacode.png
[4]: https://github.com/zigford/gentoo-zigford/tree/master/media-fonts/cascadia-code
[5]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx