Cascadia Code is a purpose-built
monospaced
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spaci ...
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating ...
font for
Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator that Microsoft has developed for Windows 10 and later as a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, Pow ...
, the new command-line interface for
Microsoft Windows.
It includes programming
ligatures and was designed to enhance the look and feel of Windows Terminal, terminal applications and text editors such as
Visual Studio
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such ...
and
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor made by Microsoft with the Electron Framework, for Windows, Linux and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code comple ...
.
The font is
open source under the
SIL Open Font License and available on
GitHub
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. It has been bundled with Windows Terminal since version 0.5.2762.0.
Cascadia Code includes
box drawing glyphs.
Font family
Multiple typefaces are part of the Cascadia Code font family, representing a variety of text styling options and adjustable weights. The main and Powerline variants of the types are suitable as display fonts. With the exception of Cascadia Mono, all types replace common character combinations with their elided counterparts. Other styles supported by this font family include textual arrows and stylistic sets for italics, alternate graphics, alternate control character glyphs, and a cursive form of italic. Tables of the supported styles and more examples can be viewed in the GitHub README document.
* Cascadia Code - Variable type intended for terminals and displayed text.
* Cascadia Code PL - A version of Cascadia Code with embedded Powerline symbols.
* Cascadia Mono - Monospaced type intended for use with text editors. It preserves characters as entered, without ligatures.
* Cascadia Mono PL - A version of Cascadia Mono with embedded Powerline symbols.
In addition to the prevalent TTF variable format, these sets are available also in other formats. See the GitHub README for details.
See also
*
Consolas
Consolas is a monospaced typeface designed by Luc(as) de Groot. It is a part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It has been included with Windows since Window ...
*
Fixedsys
''Fixedsys'' is a family of raster monospaced fonts. The name means ''fixed system'', because its glyphs are monospace or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike other monospace fonts such as Courier). It is t ...
*
List of monospaced typefaces
This list of monospaced typefaces details standard monospaced fonts used in classical typesetting and printing.
Additional monospaced typefaces
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References
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