diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 3b42d6a..21146d6 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  * font: see http://freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
  */
-static char *font = "Liberation Mono:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:autohint=true";
+static char *font = "Fira Code:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:autohint=true";
 static int borderpx = 2;
 
 /*
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ char *stty_args = "stty raw pass8 nl -echo -iexten -cstopb 38400";
 char *vtiden = "\033[?6c";
 
 /* Kerning / character bounding-box multipliers */
-static float cwscale = 1.0;
+static float cwscale = 0.9;
 static float chscale = 1.0;
 
 /*