Tag: fira code

Fira Code or JetBrains Mono?

Subtle differences between the Fira Code and JetBrains Mono. I’ll try both for a while.

Click on the image to see gif animation of the font differences.

JetBrains Mono’s “r” and “g” have a simpler shape, one of the obvious differences.

Steps of creating the gif from command line on macOS:

  1. Take two screenshots with both of the fonts.
  2. Make a movie of them using iMovie.
  3. Save the movie clip as mp4.
  4. Install ffmpeg using brew: brew install ffmpeg
  5. Create the gif from the mp4:

ffmpeg -i FiraCodeOrJetbrainsMono.mp4 -r 15 -vf scale=1200:-1 which-font.gif