Ligaturizer vs Sudo
When comparing Ligaturizer vs Sudo, the Slant community recommends Ligaturizer for most people. In the question“What are the best Monospace fonts with programming ligatures?” Ligaturizer is ranked 11th while Sudo is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Ligaturizer is:
Ligaturizer isn't actually a font, it's a project that lets you add ligatures to any pre-existing fonts. Many popular fonts are already included in the project, so if your favorite font is already there you can just download them and you don't need to run the scripts at all.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Lets you use whatever font you want
Ligaturizer isn't actually a font, it's a project that lets you add ligatures to any pre-existing fonts. Many popular fonts are already included in the project, so if your favorite font is already there you can just download them and you don't need to run the scripts at all.
Pro Good legibility
Different character categories are differentiated by height and alignment. Numbers are a line width smaller than capital letters. Zero is now dotted.
Pro Programming ligatures
Pro Four styles available
Sudo has Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles available.
Pro Works well on Windows
Sudo is hand-hinted for good rendering on Windows.
Cons
Con Some ligatures won't match up
Since you're combining ligatures from one font with another font that's not designed for them, ligatures designed to be paired with other characters won't line up. For example #{ }
will form a ligature for #{
using the FiraCode ligatures, but }
will use the font native character, and not match up. You can choose which ligatures to build with, so you could remove ligatures that would be paired with another character from your generated font or add the paired characters to match.