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Programming font ligatures
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Ligature symbols are hard to tell apart from other charactersUnreviewed
20172026- Ligature symbols are hard to tell apart from other characters2022-03-30
- Ligatures make unfamiliar code and guides harder to read and follow2020-11-20
- Ligatures like == and -> look like single characters, causing misreading at a glance2017-07-21
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Cursor moves unpredictably over ligatures and deleting one character changes neighbors2025-07-24
- Ligature symbols are hard to tell apart from other characters2022-03-30
- Ligatures make unfamiliar code and guides harder to read and follow2020-11-20
- Ligatures like == and -> look like single characters, causing misreading at a glance2017-07-21