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How to enable Recursive (OpenType) font code ligature in Visual Studio Code?

More specifically

How to enable code Discretionary Ligatures "dlig" feature of Recursive font ?

Usual fontLigatures settings.json configuration doesn't work.

"editor.fontFamily": "Recursive Sans Linear"
"editor.fontLigatures": true // Do not work :-/
Solution

  • To enable code ligatures edit VSCode settings.json with desired OpenType features :

    // Code ligatures ON
"editor.fontLigatures": "'dlig'"
// BONUS: other feature set (see below)
"editor.fontLigatures": "'ss01', 'ss02', 'ss03', 'ss04', 'ss05', 'ss06', 'zero', 'onum'"

    Recursive ligature features

    Sources :

    Stephen Nixon's article on recursive.design

    GitHub VSCode related issue

    See also : Microsoft OpenType spec