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32 lines
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Cascadia Code
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Microsoft released a new open source font yesterday to go along with their
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Windows Terminal project. I wipped up a quick ebuild to use it on my Gentoo
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systems.
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My first thoughts are that it is very refeshing to a have a nice new font to
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look at. I particularly like the letter spacing. While I've been using [Fira
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Code][1] for a while, I've felt it takes just a tad too much spacing between
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letters. [Cascadia Code][2] on the other hand feels tight and fun.
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The font also supports [ligatures][5] which allows specific combinations of
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characters (commonly used in programming) to join together to and become a
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single character symbolic of its function.
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Unfortunatly, the terminal and editor apps I use on Gentoo don't currently
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support ligatures. Regardless, I think it looks quite nice at the moment.
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Here is a screenshot: ![screenshot][3]
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And you can find my ebuild [here][4]
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Tags: fonts, gentoo
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[1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
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[3]: images/cascadiacode.png
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[4]: https://github.com/zigford/gentoo-zigford/tree/master/media-fonts/cascadia-code
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[5]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx
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