Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No

Lig­a­tures are spe­cial char­ac­ters in a font that com­bine two (or more) trou­ble­some char­ac­ters into one. If you have an fi lig­a­ture in your font, you iden­tify it with its des­ig­nated Uni­code code point, which is . So in a source file that uses Uni­code char­ac­ters, how would you know if you’re look­ing at a => lig­a­ture that’s shaped like ⇒ vs. Uni­code char­ac­ter , which also looks like ⇒?

Source: practicaltypography.com