Set i3 font to Fira Code, Give statusbar softer colors

.config/i3/config

@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@
 # Please see https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html for a complete reference!
 
 set $mod Mod4
+set $font "pango:Fira Code 8"
 
 # Font for window titles. Will also be used by the bar unless a different font
 # is used in the bar {} block below.
 #font pango:monospace 8
-font Fira Code 8
+font $font 
 
 # This font is widely installed, provides lots of unicode glyphs, right-to-left
 # text rendering and scalability on retina/hidpi displays (thanks to pango).
@@ -168,6 +169,12 @@ bindsym $mod+r mode "resize"
 # Start i3bar to display a workspace bar (plus the system information i3status
 # finds out, if available)
 bar {
+        font $font
+	position bottom
+	colors {
+		background #232323
+		statusline #DCDCDC
+	}
 	status_command i3status
 }