{"id":761,"date":"2024-05-26T18:02:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/major-update-introduced-to-microsofts-open-source-developer-font\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T07:25:13","slug":"major-update-introduced-to-microsofts-open-source-developer-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/major-update-introduced-to-microsofts-open-source-developer-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Update Introduced to Microsoft&#8217;s Open-Source Developer Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong><em>Cascadia Code<\/em> is an open-source monospaced font produced by Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2020\/05\/windows-terminal-stable-release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first released in 2020<\/a>. It is the default typeface for the official <em>Windows Terminal<\/em> app.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2023\/06\/intel-one-mono-font\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Intel\u2019s<em> One Mono<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2020\/01\/jetbrains-mono-font-for-developers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JetBrains\u2019 <em>Mono<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2017\/11\/use-ibm-plex-font-ubuntu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IBM\u2019s <em>Plex<\/em><\/a>, <em>Cascadia Code<\/em> is a clean, legible, modern monospaced font specifically designed for terminal and code editing. It also offers a wide range of programming ligatures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Recently, the font received its first update in almost three years. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/cascadia-code-2404-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release announcement<\/a>, it\u2019s a significant one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If you&#8217;re a fan of this font and have an older version installed, or if you&#8217;re simply a creative individual interested in ASCII and ANSI art, there&#8217;s a <em>lot<\/em> in this version to grab your attention&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>Cascadia Code Now Retro Terminal Friendly<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cascadia Code 2404.03 introduces 1140 new glyphs, including a glut of legacy computing symbols like sextants, octants, eights, sedecimants, quadrants (separated), segmented digits, circles and checkerboard, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/cascadia-code\/issues\/709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">large type pieces<\/a> (per Unicode 16.0 spec).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdfonts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nerd Fonts<\/a>? It\u2019s a project that patches more icons, symbols, and glyphs into developer-focused fonts. Those glyphs can be used to both prettify and enhance the kinds of visual information relayed through coding and command-line environments.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>But you won\u2019t need to use a 3rd-party patched version of <em>Cascadia Code<\/em> as Nerd Font variants ship as part of this release: <em>Cascadia Code NF<\/em> and <em>Cascadia Mono NF<\/em>. Both versions offer the full range of (metrics-compatible) Nerd Font glyphs as of April 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You\u2019ll notice in the screenshot above that Microsoft chose to demo the updated font using Ubuntu for WSL running in the <em>Windows Terminal<\/em> app \u2014 nice touch! <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If you have an older version of <em>Cascadia Code<\/em> installed Microsoft recommend removing\/uninstalling it before replacing it with a new version to avoid \u201cimproper rendering\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2022 Download <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/cascadia-code\/releases\/tag\/v2404.23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cascadia Code on Github<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font produced by Microsoft first released in 2020. 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