Bug 508072 - Consider shipping FiraCode as default font for all code editors
Summary: Consider shipping FiraCode as default font for all code editors
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-11-23 13:59 EST by Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA
Modified: 2020-05-22 10:22 EDT (History)
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2016-11-23 13:59:16 EST 
FireCode is an open source font aimed at improving font rendering for programming.
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

I think we should evaluate if it's worth making it the default in the new generic code editor or IDE wide.
Comment 1 Andrew Obuchowicz CLA 2020-05-22 06:53:50 EDT 
Kind of unrelated:

I assume that the purpose of this bug was essentially to support ligatures in text editors (like the generic text editor).
However this bug suggests using a font with a SIL Open Font License - does this mean any font with the same license could potentially be packaged with Eclipse IDE?

I've been using Terminus (http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/) as my editor font with Eclipse for quite a while (and it uses the same license). I know it might be hard to convince the community to include it with Eclipse, but could I theoretically include it in an Eclipse plugin?
Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Bigourdan CLA 2020-05-22 10:22:58 EDT 
(In reply to Andrew Obuchowicz from comment #1)
> Kind of unrelated:
> 
> I assume that the purpose of this bug was essentially to support ligatures
> in text editors (like the generic text editor).
> However this bug suggests using a font with a SIL Open Font License - does
> this mean any font with the same license could potentially be packaged with
> Eclipse IDE?
> 
> I've been using Terminus (http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/) as my
> editor font with Eclipse for quite a while (and it uses the same license). I
> know it might be hard to convince the community to include it with Eclipse,
> but could I theoretically include it in an Eclipse plugin?

If Terminus is SIL Open Font License as well, I think the only requirement is to include copyright + license in the plugin that ships it, and keep any changes you make to the font under the same license.