The Universal Windows Platform Development Component Installed.The Desktop Development with C++ Component Installed.Python with the rich text library installed.The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature enabled with a Linux distribution installed (all demos shown are using Ubuntu 20.04).

If you want to follow along with all of the demos in this article, you’ll need a few other tools installed as well:

All you need is a Windows 10 machine with build 1903 (May 2019) or later. The requirements to install and use the Windows Terminal itself are pretty basic.

Customizing how the Windows Terminal is Opened.

The settings.json file: Customizing all the things.

The 'Code' variants include ligatures, whereas the 'Mono' variants exclude them.Ĭascadia Code is licensed under the SIL Open Font license on GitHub. Programming ligatures are glyphs that are created by combining characters. It uses a few additional glyphs to display this information properly. Powerline is a common command-line plugin that allows you to display additional information in your prompt. Windows Terminal ships Cascadia Code and Cascadia Mono in its package and uses Cascadia Mono by default. All versions of Cascadia Code can be downloaded from the Cascadia Code GitHub releases page. There are multiple versions of Cascadia Code available that include ligatures and glyphs. This font is most recommended to be used with terminal applications and text editors such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Cascadia Code was developed alongside Windows Terminal. Cascadia Code is a new monospaced font from Microsoft that provides a fresh experience for command-line applications and text editors.

Windows terminal font type