nerd-fonts
Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more (by ryanoasis)
kitty
Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal (by kovidgoyal)
| nerd-fonts | kitty | |
|---|---|---|
| 250 | 315 | |
| 57,350 | 27,083 | |
| 1.4% | 2.4% | |
| 9.3 | 9.9 | |
| 3 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| CSS | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nerd-fonts
Posts with mentions or reviews of nerd-fonts.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-11.
- Nerd Fonts – Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher
- Nerd Fonts: 3,600 Icons and 50 Patched Fonts for Developers
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(Youtube blogpost) Building Tree Link app with Svelte and Tailwind CSS
iTerm2 is a fast terminal emulator for macOS. Install one of Nerd Fonts for displaying fancy glyphs on your terminal. My current choice is Hack. And use it on your terminal app. For example, on iTerm2:
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Install Nerd Fonts (or any fonts) easily in Linux
./install-font.sh https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.2.1/Hack.zip
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Bro Install Neovim On Windows And Setup Neovim Without Neovim Package Manager 🙀
D2Coding 😹 extract and install all your font and gone to the windows terminal settings
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ZSH with Starship
# Tạo thư mục tạm để lưu các tệp tải về mkdir ~/nerd-fonts && cd ~/nerd-fonts # Tải xuống các tệp zip wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.2.1/DroidSansMono.zip wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.2.1/NerdFontsSymbolsOnly.zip # Giải nén DroidSansMono unzip DroidSansMono.zip -d DroidSansMono # Giải nén NerdFontsSymbolsOnly unzip NerdFontsSymbolsOnly.zip -d NerdFontsSymbolsOnly sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/nerd-fonts sudo cp DroidSansMono/*.otf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/nerd-fonts/ sudo cp NerdFontsSymbolsOnly/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/nerd-fonts/ sudo fc-cache -fv
- Nerd Fonts: Over 50 Patched Fonts with 3,600 Icons for Devs and Designers
- 🚀 Um Guia Prático para Configurar Zsh, Oh My Zsh, asdf e Spaceship Prompt com Zinit para Seu Ambiente de Desenvolvimento
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🚀 A Hands-On Guide to Setting Up Zsh, Oh My Zsh, asdf, and Spaceship Prompt with Zinit for Your Development Environment
Go to the Nerd Fonts GitHub repository and download your preferred font (e.g., Hack or Roboto Mono).
- Oh My Posh- Powershell Terminal Setup
kitty
Posts with mentions or reviews of kitty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-16.
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Optimizing My Dev Workflow in 2025
Initially, I used the Mac's built-in Terminal, but encountered issues with font loading. This led me to explore alternative terminal options. I initially chose Kitty, but after the official release of Ghostty, I made the switch. It has been running flawlessly for me.
- [RFC] Allow terminal programs to display text in different sizes
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An Actually Productive Arch Linux Setup
kitty
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Suckless.org: software that sucks less
I quite liked Kitty, and wanted to keep using it. But the slow startup was a deal breaker for me. Even with `--single-instance` it was at least 5x that of st for me, which is noticeable for an app I use very frequently. Besides, I'm not a fan of running a single instance of any app, since if (when) it crashes, all my work is gone.
Then I had a look around their issue tracker, and noticed others complained about this too[1]. And the dismissive and defensive response from the author just rubbed me the wrong way.
[1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/330
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Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine: a high performance caching library
kitty is very close, which is impressive when you remember that the vast majority of the work is done by one guy (Kovid Goyal).
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.239% vs 0.137%
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.729% vs 0.317%
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors
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From iTerm To WezTerm
In recent years, new terminal emulators have appeared. I tried using them mainly for testing macmon. A couple of years ago, I tried switching to kitty, which was faster due to GPU acceleration. However, it required too much customization and still looked very non-native for macOS. GPU acceleration was added to iTerm as well, so I stayed with it.
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iTerm2 Critical Security Fix
No it's not. The author smuggles opt-out telemetry and is suspiciously abrasive towards users pointing this out.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544
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Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title
It's not just Kitty graphics, the Kitty Keyboard Protocol is a DOS waiting to happen, and Goyal with his customary charm is very hostile to the idea of correcting his mistake: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/7749
This isn't the only problem with KKB, it must be deprecated and replaced.
- Ghostty 1.0
- Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nerd-fonts and kitty you can also consider the following projects:
powerline - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
Font-Awesome - The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust