Creating Ligatures: The Journey of Font Design

A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we’re sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren’t usually high on the list of things that need maintaining. That’s not true when your font also supports hundreds of programming ligatures like FiraCode does. Nikita has his hands full!

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Featuring:

• Nikita Prokopov – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• FiraCode on Changelog News
• FiraCode on GitHub
• FiraSans on GitHub
• FiraCode on Twitter
• Nikita on Patreon
• Glyphs

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!