Font-Ligatures in VS Code

Published on Nov 08, 2020

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First, we need to install the ligature font systemwide:

sudo apt-get install fonts-firacode

Next, we need to add the following into the VS Code settings file.

Go to File->Preferences->Settings. And then search for font ligatures.

Edit the line with editor.fontLigatures to match below, and all the extra line underneath it.

{
    "editor.fontLigatures": true,
    "editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code"
}

Restart VS Code and your programming symbols should now be displayed as ligatures.