Microsoft is publishing a new font as part of its Windows Terminal efforts this week. The company’s Cascadia Code is a new monospaced font designed by Microsoft, and it is completely open-sourced on GitHub.

Microsoft’s Kayla Cinnamon, who’s part of the Windows Terminal team at the company, said the new font is designed to offer a “fresh experience” for code editors and command-line apps. The new font was developed hand-in-hand with Windows Terminal, and it will be automatically installed on the next update for Windows Terminal. The font also supports programming ligatures, so it will be perfect if you are a programmer.

Microsoft also explained the reasoning behind the name of the font, stating that it’s called “Cascadia Code” because the original codename for Windows Terminal was “Cascadia”, and it later added “Code” to indicate the font is meant for programming.

You can download Cascadia Code here.

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