nerd-fonts VS powerline

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts cd ~/.local/share/fonts wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/JetBrainsMono.zip unzip JetBrainsMono.zip fc-cache -fv

I go for the Iosevka Nerd Font Mono these days to get the nice icons everywhere.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

# Create fonts directory mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts # Download JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (or any you prefer) wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/JetBrainsMono.zip # Unzip unzip JetBrainsMono.zip -d ~/.local/share/fonts/JetBrainsMono # Refresh font cache fc-cache -fv

# Download and install a Nerd Font (example: FiraCode) mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts cd ~/.local/share/fonts curl -fLo "FiraCode Nerd Font.ttf" \ https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/raw/HEAD/patched-fonts/FiraCode/Regular/FiraCodeNerdFont-Regular.ttf fc-cache -fv

Sure, I'll add it in. I'll post the links here as well just in case:

https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-mo...

I'd recommend getting it from there rather than the Braille Institute's website since they require an email and EULA, but here's the other download link anyway.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Also, Nerd Fonts added Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in their v3.4.0 release.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.4.0

With Nerd Fonts, I'd recommend downloading both and setting up a fallback system through fontconfig though. Unfortunately, some versions (Nerd Fonts, official download) are still missing the backtick/grave glyph.

https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-mo...

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:

./install-font.sh https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.2.1/Hack.zip

I love powerline over traditional PS1 (aka command prompt). It's beautiful and highly customizable.

Powerline (and airline, as well as all plugins of that kind) offers, among other things, a GUI that helps you manage buffers and tabs. There are plugins that do just that and nothing else, which are best used alongside powerline/airline/etc, for example bufferline.

Powerline Provides a much nicer status line in Vim, including integration with Git to tell you what branch you’re on and the tracking status of the file you’re working on.

powerline includes prompts for bash and zsh that include git info. (despite selling itself as a vim statusline, I believe you can use its shell prompts without using it with vim.)

Could also be a patched font. Some fonts use the private use area of unicode to draw glyphs for use in interface. Check out for example these patched fonts for Powerline on GitHub. Powerline is a status line plugin for vim and it uses text to draw the interface. If you download one, drop it on a font visualizer e.g. fontdrop.info you'll see a range of specific glyphs inside the private use area (E000–F8FF). There's even an Ubuntu logo at E0FF.

You are wrong

Wait until you discover that you can apply powerline to both of them

IBM Plex is an interesting font that I'm looking forward to, and I would like to try it out. However, you may be in similar setup as I am, which relays on Powerline glyphs in order to display vim/statusline/prompt correctly.