When comparing Ligaturizer vs Dank Mono, the Slant community recommends Dank Mono for most people. In the question“What are the best Monospace fonts with programming ligatures?” Dank Mono is ranked 9th while Ligaturizer is ranked 11th.
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 Italic variant with handwriting style
Pro Has ligatures
Pro Cheaper alternative to Operator Mono
Operator Mono costs about $200. Dank Mono looks similar but costs only £40.
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 Too thin
He needs to add variants of thickness and then I think he would have a sellar product. You have to set your font size extremely high on hi-res displays to look the way I think he wishes it to be, but then the font is too large.
Con Looks a bit inconsistent, especially italics
Lowercase k looks weird.