nerd-fonts VS polybar-themes

Compare nerd-fonts vs polybar-themes and see what are their differences.

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)
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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 2023-12-11.
  • jokermanBestFont
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Dec 2023
    Use any nerd fonts
  • which Font do you use?
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    SourceCodePro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro
  • Neovim Nerd Font icons are available!
    1 project | /r/neovim | 23 Nov 2023
    Hot off the press: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.1.0
  • Berkeley Mono Typeface
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
    It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

    Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

  • NvChad - multiple different client offset_encodings detected for buffer
    1 project | /r/neovim | 4 Nov 2023
    I'm using Neovim v0.9.1 on Ubuntu 23.04 with NvChad. I've also installed the JetBrainsMono font, as NvChad requires a Nerd Font, but nothing besides that and I haven't edited any settings or nvim files and I haven't installed any additional plugins.
  • Nerd Fonts
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2023
  • JetBrains Mono Typeface
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

    Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

    Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

    Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

    I like all of these because they look feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

    And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.

  • Compiler.nvim: Oficially released (beta)
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 19 Jun 2023
    It is FiraCode Nerd Font Mono:size=16. You can find it here. On arch linux you can just install the nerd-fonts and it's included there.
  • Need help: NvChad v2.0 doesn't display font icons correctly with CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Jun 2023
  • Not sure what icon I'm missing here
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2023
    I'm assuming you're using a Nerd Font already, since I see the Rust logo and folder icons in your terminal. However, it's possible that your particular font is based on Nerd Font 2.x and the newest version is 3.x. Maybe try scanning your Lua config with nerdfix to identify whether the diagnostics icons you have set (among others) are using outdated 2.x character codes. If they are, try replacing them in your config, and also try upgrading your terminal's Nerd Font compliant font to the latest version (NF's GitHub release page says 3.0.1 is the newest version). Hope this helps your troubleshooting efforts!

polybar-themes

Posts with mentions or reviews of polybar-themes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-31.
  • WiFi and Ethernet disconnecting on Asus X670E-E (AX210 / I225-V)
    1 project | /r/archcraft | 5 Jul 2023
    I did try other kernels and what worked with me is to basically create a custom arch install. There seems to be a specific kernel/driver combination that works well with the WiFi/Ethernet drivers on my board and I can't just force some wifi drivers on the current kernel (I think 81.ucode is the latest one for the wifi but its using a version lower than that which I've already tested by force loading). For now I'm very much thankful that you can basically study and copy Archcraft's code/packages/configs (and my backups as well) and set it up on my custom arch install though it did take a few hours but I probably managed to restore 90% of my previous setup as everything is already on github. As a bonus, I did use u/adi1090x polybar-themes as well (https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes) and study to integrate that pywal effect and basically add and integrate that on top of the default themes. But its just too cumbersome to edit one by one rather than having an already available distro so I'm still hoping for a permanent fix if any of you guys have an idea.
  • Last Post if Reddit Goes Down - [XFCE + Nord + Polybar]
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 11 Jun 2023
  • This is the Craziesssssst Linux Mint rice I have ever done!
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 5 May 2023
    Sorry man I woke up to exam announcement lol, here is the Conifg I am using for polybar: https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes
  • How can I make the Polybar bar look colorful like this
    1 project | /r/Polybar | 12 Jan 2023
  • Regarding Window Managers
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 31 Dec 2022
  • About Window Managers
    2 projects | /r/DistroTube | 30 Dec 2022
  • Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong to compile polybar?
    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 16 Dec 2022
  • [screenshot] Finallymy void desktop is ready (and the audio works correctly)
    3 projects | /r/voidlinux | 21 Nov 2022
    If you want to replace some components, you could get polybar instead of the XFCE panel and rofi as the app launcher. Aditya Shakya (/u/adi1090x) has great collections of themes for polybar and rofi.
  • Polybar, Powermenu
    1 project | /r/Polybar | 28 Oct 2022
    I am currently using Debian 11 with openbox and my polybar powermenu isn't fully working shutdown, and restart are the only two that are working logout and sleep are not working and the polybar config is weird I try to edit the config and it just doesn't work I've been trying to make the polybar be on top of my screen but it just stays on the bottom. I am currently using an already made polybar called colorblocks https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes and I want to get rid of some modules as well.
  • Installing bspwm and polybar on a fresh install of Debian
    1 project | /r/u_DonaldLucas | 27 Oct 2022
    //install git $ sudo apt install git-all //installing feh to change wallpaper $ sudo apt install feh //change wallpaper $ feh --bg-scale /wallpaper_path/your_wallpaper.png $ nano ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc //add this and save: ${HOME}/.fehbg //fonts and wallpapers: $ git clone https://github.com/terroo/fonts.git $ cd fonts/fonts && cp *.ttf *.otf $HOME/.local/share/fonts/ $ c-cache -fv //create configuration file for polybar $ mkdir -p ~/.config/polybar $ cp /usr/share/doc/polybar/config ~/.config/polybar //installing themes $ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes.git $ cd polybar-themes $ chmod +x setup.sh $ ./setup.sh [?] Select Option : 1 //choose theme $ bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh Usage : launch.sh --theme Available Themes : --blocks --colorblocks --cuts --docky --forest --grayblocks --hack --material --panels --pwidgets --shades --shapes $ bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh --choosen_theme $ nano ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc //add this and save: ${HOME}/.config/polybar/launch.sh --choosen_theme //run polybar $ polybar example &

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nerd-fonts and polybar-themes you can also consider the following projects:

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

polybar-collection - Beautiful collection of Polybar themes

Visual Studio Code - Public documentation for Visual Studio Code

i3-starterpack - A simple guide (and example of configuration) to install i3 & its and essentials packages, then make them look eye candy.

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.

networkmanager-dmenu - Control NetworkManager via dmenu

bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script. See also https://github.com/riobard/zsh-powerline

awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager

Hack - A typeface designed for source code

archcraft-i3wm - // Configuration : I3wm

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE