CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

6.0

Unicode:

• Fixed height of ∑ U+2211 N-ARY SUMMATION #1083
• Added U+2241..U+224B ≁ ≂ ≃ ≄ ≅ ≆ ≇ ≉ ≊ ≋ #1090
• Added new enclosed characters from Unicode 13 U+0229C ⊜, U+1F10D 🄍, U+1F10E 🄎, U+1F10F 🄏, U+1F16D 🅭, U+1F16E 🅮, U+1F16F 🅯, U+1F1AD 🆭 #1070
• Redrew U+27F0..U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A to be strict monospace ⟲⟳⟴⟵⟶⟷⟸⟹⟺⟻⟼⟽⟾⟿ #1109 #1123
• Added U+220E End of Proof ∎ #1115
• Added U+FFFD Replacement Character � #1137, thanks @gjvnq
• Added U+EE00..U+EE05 Progress Bar  #1182

Removed:

• C-style compound assignment >>= <<= ||= |= are not combined with equal sign by default. Old behavior is moved into ss09 #974
• Restored short | by default, long one moved to cv30 #843
• Moved .- into cv25 #860 #1103

Added (variants):

• Alternative a cv01 #949
• Alternative g cv02 #886
• Alternative i cv03-cv06
• Alternative l cv07-cv10 #899
• Alternative 0 cv11-cv13
• Alternative 3 cv14
• Top-aligned * cv15
• Hexagonal * cv16 #708 #1134
• Top-aligned ~ cv17
• Alternative % cv18
• <= with a horizontal bar cv19
• <= as an arrow cv20 #34 #696 #858
• =< as less than or equal cv21 #34
• =< as less than or equal with horizontal bar cv22 #34
• >= with a horizontal bar cv23
• /= as not equals cv24 #125
• Added :- to cv26 #790
• Returned [] as cv27
• Returned {. .} as cv28 #875 #635 #409 #279 #264 #214
• Alternative {} cv29
• Returned full ligatures for Fl Tl fi fj fl ft as ss10

5.2 (June 12, 2020)

• Fixed hinting problems caused by build_ttf #1075

5.1 (June 10, 2020)

• Fixed monospace property broken by adding threeemdash #1073

5.0 (June 8, 2020)

• Fixed Box drawing diagonal lines U+2571 ╱ U+2572 ╲ U+2573 ╳ #929
• Added U+2236 Ratio ∶ #926
• Added U+2E3A 2-em dash ⸺, U+2E3B 3-em dash ⸻ #1019
• Fixed arrows next to lowercase letters #1049 #1059
• Vertically-aligned colons, greater/less signs #980 #1061
• Make U+2388 Helm Symbol ⎈ single-width #1036
• Disable =/ because of conflicts with paths PATH=/... #1056
• Fixed STAT table in FiraCode-VF.ttf #770 #1054
• Added //= =// =//= #816
• Added U+21B0..U+21B3 ↰ ↱ ↲ ↳, U+2770..U+2771 ❰ ❱ #1032
• Fixed U+27F8 ⟸ U+27F9 ⟹ U+27FA ⟺ U+27FD ⟽ U+27FE ⟾ U+27FF ⟿ that were broken in v4 #1067
• Added ss08 that adds gaps to == === != !== #187 #383
• Removed OTF from distr to avoid confusion #939

4.0 (May 18, 2020)

Removed 44 individual arrow ligatures, replaced with four universal, combinative substitutions. 100-150% faster shaping performance, infinite amount of arrow combinations.

• Arbitrary-long combinative hyphen-based arrows #346 #494 #713 #826 #968 #983 #1029
• Arbitrary-long combinative equal-based arrows #229 #234 #346 #494 #698 #826 #919 #931 #946 #948 #968 #1016 #1018 #1022
• Arbitrary-long underscores #120 #269 #346 #494
• Arbitrary-long numbersign sequences #1014
• Fixed descender in U+040F Џ
• Undid #995 and properly fixed U+04CB Ӌ, U+04CC ӌ #1001 and U+0449 щ #1007
• Added ||| to prevent partial ligatures in |||-||| |||=||| #346

3.1 (April 15, 2020)

• Fixed width of Germandbls, cornerbracketleft, cornerbracketleft, negativeAcknowledge-control, cornerbracketleft.half, cornerbracketright.half [#1000]
• Fixed misplaced descenders on U+04B3 ҳ U+04CB Ӌ and U+04CC ӌ [#995]
• Fixed U+03F4 ϴ [#996]
• Fixed U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE [#997]

3.0 (April 9, 2020)

• Disabled ligatures in progress bars [-> [--> [---> [=> [==> [===> [#968]
• Added set letters U+2102 ℂ U+210D ℍ U+2115 ℕ U+2119 ℙ U+211A ℚ U+211D ℝ U+2124 ℤ and U+1D539 𝔹 [#841]
• Removed ?: [#970]
• Added missing set operations U+2200 ∀ U+2203..U+2205 ∃ ∄ ∅ U+2207 ∇ U+2282..U+228B ⊂ ⊃ ⊄ ⊅ ⊆ ⊇ ⊈ ⊉ ⊊ ⊋ U+2208..U+220# ∈ ∉ ∊ ∋ ∌ ∍ U+222A ∪ [#822]
• Added U+300C U+300D Corner brackets 「」 and U+FF62 U+FF63 Halfwidth Corner brackets ｢｣ [#940]
• Added <<->> [#919]
• Disabled fl Fl Tl ligatures, adjusted l height in combination with [F T I f] instead [#902]
• Added U+25A4..25A9 Squares with fill ▤▥▦▧▨▩ [#450]
• Slightly tuned multiple ampersands in ss03 [#831]
• Fixed horizontal bar height in <!-- [#917]
• Fixed multiply sign in 0xFF and 10x10 with combination of onum and zero [#888]
• Fixed dollar sign in <$ $> <$> when ss04 is active [#830]
• Removed ss19 and ss20 (they are covered by zero and onum)
• Added =~ and !~ to ss07 [#293]
• Removed ~= [#381]
• Re-added ..= with just a subtle spacing adjustment [#934]
• Added U+2630..U+2637 ☰☱☲☳☴☵☶☷ (Bagua trigrams) [#859]
• Disabled <?= (?= after <) [#850]
• Added SemiBold weight [#987]
• Replaced single LIG with per-glyph *.spacer

2.0 (September 9, 2019)

• Characters U+25DE ◟ and U+25DF ◞ were swapped [#761]
• Added Box Drawing Light Arcs U+256D ╭ U+256E ╮ U+256F ╯ U+2570 ╰ [#349] [#702] [#714] [#725]
• Added Mathematical Angle Brackets U+27E8 ⟨ U+27E9 ⟩ [#763]
• Added Light and heavy dashed lines U+2504..U+250B ┄┅┆┇┈┉┊┋ [#702]
• Adjusted Box drawings double dashes U+254C..U+254F ╌╍╎╏
• Fixed outlines of U+04FA Ӻ and U+04FB ӻ [#806]
• Added Not identical to U+2262 ≢ [#396]
• Added Latin Capital Letter Sharp S U+1E9E ẞ [#587]
• Tuned position and width of U+2044 Fraction Slash ⁄ [#588] and U+2215 Division Slash ∕ [#805]
• Added U+1405 Canadian Syllabics O ᐅ and U+140A Canadian Syllabics A ᐊ [#666]
• Added U+2234 Therefore ∴ and U+2235 Because ∵ [#669]
• Added U+239B..U+23AD multi-line brackets [#675]

⎛ 1 ⎞ ⎡ a ⎤ ⎧ x ⎫
⎜ 2 ⎟ ⎢ b ⎥ ⎪ y ⎪
⎜ 3 ⎟ ⎢ c ⎥ ⎨ z ⎬
⎜ 4 ⎟ ⎢ d ⎥ ⎪ y ⎪
⎝ 5 ⎠ ⎣ e ⎦ ⎩ x ⎭

• Added U+27F0..U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A ⟲⟳⟰⟱⟴⟵⟶⟷⟸⟹⟺⟻⟼⟽⟾⟿ [#677]
• Added U+2400..U+2426 Control Pictures ␆␈␇␣␢␘␍␐␡␥␔␑␓␒␙␃␄␗␅␛␜␌␝␉␊␕␤␀␞␏␎␠␁␂␚␦␖␟␋ [#764]
• Added U+2388 Helm Symbol ⎈ [#766]
• Added U+2016 Double Vertical Line ‖ [#780]
• Tuned metrics (1870,-530 -> 1800,-600, upm 2000 -> 1950, hopefully fix [#241] [#252] [#459] [#552] [#798])
• Box characters to not overflow line height, taller | [#449]
• Added few technical symbols [#799]:
  • U+21A9 Leftwards arrow with hook (Return) ↩
  • U+21DE Upwards arrow with double stroke (Page Up) ⇞
  • U+21DF Downwards arrow with double stroke (Page down) ⇟
  • U+21E4 Left Tab Arrow ⇤
  • U+21E5 Right Tab Arrow ⇥
  • U+2300 Diameter sign ⌀
  • U+2303 Up Arrowhead (Control) ⌃
  • U+2304 Down Arrowhead ⌄
  • U+2305 Projective ⌅
  • U+2306 Perspective ⌆
  • U+2318 Place of interest sign (Command) ⌘
  • U+2324 Up Arrowhead between two horizontal bars ⌤
  • U+2325 Option Key ⌥
  • U+2387 Alternative Key Symbol ⎇
  • U+238B Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow (Escape) ⎋
  • U+23CF Eject symbol ⏏
• Added Coq logical and /\ and logical or \/ ligatures, U+2227 ∧ and U+2228 ∨ [#191] [#488] [#738] [#810]
• Added SystemVerilog |-> |=> and <-| <=| for symmetry [#695]
• Added Forces ||- ligature and U+22A2..U+22AF ⊢ ⊣ ⊤ ⊥ ⊦ ⊧ ⊨ ⊩ ⊪ ⊫ ⊬ ⊭ ⊮ ⊯ [#709]
• Added fl Fl Tl ligatures, adjusted fi fj pairs [#795]
• Disabled ligatures after regexp lookahead/lookbehinds (?<=< (?<=> (?<==> (?<=| (?<== (?=:= (?=!= (?== (?=== (?==> (?=> (?=>> (?=<< (?=/= (?!! (?!!. (?!= (?!== (?<!! (?<!!. (?<!= (?<!== (?<!-- [#578]
• Removed ..= [#757]
• Alternatives (stylistic sets):
  • Lowercase r (ss01) [#601]
  • Less than/greater than <= >= (ss02) [#263] [#617]
  • Ampersand & (ss03) [#371] [#617]
  • Dollar sign $ (ss04) [#617]
  • At sign @ (ss05) [#617] [#748] [#817]
  • Thin backslash (ss06) [#577 #720 #825]
  • Dotted zero 0 (zero, ss19)
  • Old-style figures (onum, ss20) [#561] [#715]
• Old-style figures no longer prevent ligatures [#561] [#715]

1.207 (April 6, 2019)

• Variable TTF, cleaned up many small Light weight errors (done by @thundernixon, PR #735)
• Dropped EOF which were only useful for IE 6-11
• Fixed different vertical position of <= >= in Light and Bold caused during [#483]

1.206 (September 30, 2018)

• Added <==> ([#392]), #: ([#642]), !!. ([#618]), >: :< ([#605]), U+0305 Combining overline ([#608]), U+2610 Ballot box, U+2611 Ballot box with check, U+2612 Ballot box with x ([#384])
• Fixed incorrect width of [ ** ([#607])
• Redrew {| |} [| |] ([#643])
• Removed {. .} ([#635]), thin backslash ([#577])
• Disabled ligatures in (?= (?<= (?: ([#624]), >=< ([#548]), {|} [|] ([#593])
• Fixed ligatures precedence in <||> ([#621]), :>= ([#574]), <<*>> <<<*>>> <<+>> <<<+>>> <<$>> <<<$>>>([#410]),!=<` ([#276])
• Fixed incorrectly swapped box drawing characters ╵ and ╷ ([#595])
• Adjusted vertical position of <= >= to align with < > ([#483])

1.205 (February 27, 2018)

• Slashed zero by default ([#481] [#342])
• Adjusted vertical position of colon : near {[()]} ([#486])
• Thin backslash except when in \\, removed \\\ ([#536])
• Added :> ([#547]) and <: ([#525])
• Removed =< ([#479] [#468] [#424] [#406] [#355] [#305])
• Added ::= ([#539])
• Added [| |] ([#516]) {| |} ([#330])
• Added ✓ (U+2713)
• Added ..= ([#433])
• Added =!= ([#338])
• Added |- -| _|_ and adjusted |= ||= ([#494])
• Added #= ([#208])

1.204 (November 6, 2016)

• Added U+25B6 (black right-pointing triangle) and U+25C0 (black left-pointing triangle) (#289)
• Changed look of Markdown headers ## ### #### to make them easier to tell apart (#287)
• Fixed BBEdit incorrectly applying ligatures after tab (#274)
• Returned Nim pragmas {. .} (#279)
• Added Unicode increment U+2206 (#174, #298)
• Added fish operators >-> <-< (#297)
• Added safe navigation operators ?. .? ?: (#215)
• Added <~> (#179, used in IntelliJ for collapsed methods)
• Added F# piping operators ||> |||> <|| <||| (#184)
• Added shebang #! (#169, #193)

1.203 (September 17, 2016)

• Added __ (#120, #269)

1.202 (September 17, 2016)

• Removed {. .} [. .] (. .) (#264)

1.201 (August 30, 2016)

• Removed [] (#92) {- -} (#248)
• Removed /** **/ and disabled ligatures for /*/ */* sequences (#219 #238)
• Added ]# {. .} [. .] (. .) (#214)

1.200 (July 18, 2016)

• Removed !!! ??? ;;; &&& ||| =~ #167 ~~~ %%%
• New safer calt code that doesn’t apply ligatures to long sequences of chars, e.g. !!!!, >>>>, etc (#49, #110, #176)
• Larger + - * and corresponding ligatures (#86)
• Hexadecimal x (0xFF) is now applied to sequences like 128x128 as well (#161)
• Added twoTurned (U+218A) and threeTurned (U+218B) (#146)
• Added whiteFrowningFace (U+2639) (#190)
• Simplified visual style on markdown headers ## ### #### (#107)
• Added </> (#147)
• Provided ttf and webfonts versions (eot, woff, woff2) (#18, #24, #38, #101, #106)
• Increased spacing in <= >= (#117)

1.102

• Support for IntelliJ-based IDEs (instructions)
• Turned on autohinting

1.101

• Added Light weight
• Adjusted rules when vertical centering of :, -, * and + occurs

1.100

• Fixed calt table conflicts (---- would incorrectly render as <!--)
• Added centered : (between digits, e.g. 10:40)
• Added lowercase-aligned -, * and + (only between lowercase letters, e.g. kebab case var-name, pointers *ptr etc)

1.000

Added weights:

• Retina (just slightly heavier than Regular)
• Medium
• Bold

Switched to calt instead of liga. You can now “step inside” the ligature in text editors.

Fira Code is now drawn and built in Glyphs 2 app (should improve compatibility).

Added:

<-> <~~ <~ ~~~ ~> ~~> <$ <+ <* *> +> $> ;;; ::: !!! ??? %% %%% ## ### #### .- #_( =< **/ 0x www []

Redrawn:

{- -} ~= =~ =<< >>= <$> <=> .=

Removed: ?:

Total ligatures count: 115

0.6

Redrawn from Fira Mono 3.204 (slightly heavier weight)

Added:

** *** +++ -- --- ?: /= /== .= ^= =~ ?= ||= |= <<< <=< -<< -< >- >>- >=> >>> <*> <|> <$> <+> <!-- {- -} /** \\ \\\ ..< ?? ||| &&& <| |>

Added support for Powerline

0.5

Added: #{ ~- -~ <== ==> /// ;; </

0.4

• Added ~= ~~ #[
• Rolled back && and || to more traditional look
• === and !== are now rendered with 3 horizontal bars

0.3

Added: ~@ #? =:= =<

0.2.1

Fixed width of && and ||

0.2

Added: --> <-- && || =>> =/=

0.1

>>= =<< <<= ->> -> => <<- <- === == <=> >= <= >> << !== != <> := ++ #( #_ :: ... .. !! // /* */ />