# How to set monospace fonts for math symbols on VS Code

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** question, vscode\
**Created:** [June 5, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208 "2024-06-05T05:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![paalon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paalon/32/5784_2.png) [@paalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/paalon)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208/1 "2024-06-05T05:15:48Z")

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What is your font setting for VS Code? I use macOS and I have the following setting:

![スクリーンショット 2024-06-05 14.11.17](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/8/9/892450a05c975d533109bd94e59b7ae54d0d484b.png)

But the `\in` symbol is displayed as non-monospace size:

![スクリーンショット 2024-06-05 14.04.21](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/b/2b871630b34bee0e3173752d622092ad6cefb06b.png)

I also use Cascadia Mono on iTerm2 but it shows well:

![スクリーンショット 2024-06-05 14.03.58](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/6/2626086f51f1f5ac5eb78a096a82a8557816c72c.png)

How do you set monospace fonts for VS Code?

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**Author:** ![screw\_dog](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/screw_dog/32/48119_2.png) [@screw\_dog](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/screw_dog)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208/2 "2024-06-05T05:23:09Z")

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The `∈` symbol isn’t defined in Cascadia Mono so iTerm must be getting the glyph from a different font. Try adding whichever font that is in VS Code?

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**Author:** ![paalon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paalon/32/5784_2.png) [@paalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/paalon)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208/3 "2024-06-05T06:00:56Z")

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iTerm2 seems to do something special for displaying fonts.

> **[Allow users config font fallback (#3403) · Issues · George Nachman / iterm2 ·...](https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/3403)**
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> By the... on February 04, 2015 12:35 (imported from Google Code) Nowadays, users often face the need to display the unicode character or...

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**Author:** ![xiaoxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a9adbd/32.png) [@xiaoxi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaoxi)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208/4 "2024-06-05T07:42:46Z")

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Most likely it won’t solve your problems, but you can try JuliaMono.  
[https://juliamono.netlify.app](https://juliamono.netlify.app)

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**Author:** ![paalon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paalon/32/5784_2.png) [@paalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/paalon)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208/5 "2024-06-14T06:17:10Z")

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I installed and tried JuliaMono on VS Code, but the symbols are still displayed as non-monospace size.

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-monospace-fonts-for-math-symbols-on-vs-code/115208/6 "2024-06-14T07:29:31Z")

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if you share some screenshots of your settings and editor, I _might_ be able to help 🤔