Can't get FiraCode to show despite the font installed and ligatures activated in VS Code in Windows

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In my settings I have:

"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code, Comic Sans MS, Tahoma, Consolas",

and I've tried (according to this) different combinations of apostrophes, spaces and capitalization. No matter what I do, I get Comic Sans to pop (or some plain, weird junk if I only specify Fira Code with no secondary font.

I verified that I've installed all the fonts from their GitHub and I can see the fonts in the list in my text processor (of course they do look as supposed to when typed with said font too). I also tried sweeten up the process using choco install FiraCode, reported as successful.

The ligatures are turned set to true, as shown above. The latest version of VSC is installed and the system is rebooted to the borders of ridiculity. I have almost no extensions and those few I had, I deactivated.

What else can I do to troubleshoot the issue?

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I would completely uninstall Fira Code - all versions - there was a v1 and lately a v2 - and then install only v2 (on my machine it doesn't work to have both versions installed). - Mark
@Mark You don't say? Didn't hear anything about that at all. How does one uninstalls all versions of FireCode on Windows? And how do I make sure that I'm installing the newer version afterwards? Also, isn't it weird that MS Word can find the font and use it, if it's the old (or both) version that are isntalled on my system? - Konrad Viltersten
Go to your Settings/Font Settings. Search for "Fira Code" - click on the entry. I think you should have no more than 5 font faces listed fro Fira Code (Light ... Retina) and it should say version 2. There is an uninstall button there. If you have anything in addition to Fira Code v2 and 5 font faces I would uninstall them all, reboot Windows and reinstall just v2 - probably another reboot afterwards too. - Mark
I'm assuming you saw this: github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Installing - Mark
I'd suggest manually resetting windows 10 font cache which involves shutting down some windows services and deleting some files (i trust you can google). Also rather than default fira code it may be worth trying some other alternatives, specifically these ones that have ligatures but are also powerline patched for use in the terminal. For fonts with ligatures i'd suggest Cascadia Code (and derivative) or Victor Mono. You can also try Fura Code (not a typo). - marblewraith

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In my case I downloaded Fira Code v2 without first uninstalling v1. And I don't think it will ever work with both versions installed. So in Windows, go to your Settings/Font Settings and search for Fira Code - there will be an uninstall button there.

After installing v2, (install instructions https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Installing) the variants you installed like Light, Regular, Medium,BoldandRetina` for example will be listed along with the version number.

Then I would definitely reboot your computer before trying to get Fira Code and font ligatures working in vscode. Also see vscode: update to stylistic sets using font ligatures with Fira Code for some gothchas with ligatures.

Then after changing the font face in vscode I would reload vscode too. These settings work for me:

"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
"editor.fontLigatures":"'zero', 'ss02', 'ss03', 'ss04', 'ss05', 'calt'",

if you want the other stylistic sets that Fira Code offers. The calt on the end was necessary to make most of the rest work for some reason. See the SO question link just above for more on that.

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hi use this settings just select fira code font only 

"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
"editor.fontLigatures": true,

and download this font https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/distr/otf/FiraCode-Bold.otf

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I was having this same issue and instead of using Fira Code I used fira code and then I restarted VS Code and then I had the expected fonts in the editor.