When comparing Ligaturizer vs Monoid, the Slant community recommends Monoid for most people. In the question“What are the best Monospace fonts with programming ligatures?” Monoid is ranked 7th while Ligaturizer is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Monoid is:
The user can adjust letter-spacing, line-height, and choose alternate characters prior to downloading.
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 Customisable
The user can adjust letter-spacing, line-height, and choose alternate characters prior to downloading.
Pro Novel use of ligatures to display ascii character combinations as symbols
The common expression '!=' is displayed as '≠', '>=' as '≥' *, while maintaining the fixed width double-space that these characters would normally take, so as to maintain text alignment.
- Many others are supported too - see site for details.
Pro Open source
Monoid is open source meaning it's freely available to anyone.
Pro Sharpness
Pro Larger and easier to read with thin condensed letters
Pro Fine without retina
Probably the only one that is.
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.
Con Very narrow
Con No bold-italic style
Monoid doesn't offer a style that is both bold and italic.