fonts VS source-code-pro

Look at Powerline Fonts, Nerd Fonts or Font Awesome.

I'm now trying to make the Powerline fonts work on Windows. I've tried the two options I get when I right click in a font file ("Install" and "Install for all users") and even restarted the computer, but the new fonts appear everywhere (Windows control panel, LibreOffice Writer, PhpStorm...) except in the WSL console. They're simply missing in the "Font" list. I want "Hack", but I've also tried a few different fonts and none are offered as choice.

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.

In order to use some of the best themes, you'll need to first install Powerline fonts on your system. I prefer to run the install script directly from their official repository like so:

The theme in the photo above is called agnoster and for that theme, you need the Powerline fonts. Hint: a lot of the themes require these fonts.

To view the terminal properly from another machine, such as a Windows PC, Apple Mac or Linux machine you will need to install the Powerline fonts (Click here for a link to the powerline fonts).

But for this particular theme we need a particular font, the Ubuntu Mono. Of course you can download this font as a standard human or again use your terminal by directly clonning the project:

so I did git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git --depth=1 cd fonts ./install.sh cd .. rm -rf fonts

Hack is very underrated and awesome. Fira Code is nice, so is Adobe Source Code Pro [0], and Iosevka [1]. Yet, Berkeley is truly at its own level.

[0]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

[1]: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

I've been using the free Source Code Pro (GitHub source). While it works well for coding of course, I find it is also pleasing to read from for large quantities of text. The characters are distinct (no confusion between 0O lI etc.) but understated, which is what you want for something you read thousands of words with every day.

Adobe has published several open-source fonts in their Source Sans family, and this one is monospaced and made explicitly for UI. Though the regular weight will work for most programming applications, a range of weights is available if you need them.

I prefer Source Code Pro for the terminal:

https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/

I went with Fira Code, but Source Code Pro is also good. More good fonts.

A couple of typefaces, comic neue and adobe source code pro - these are just hyperlinks; I don't install these automatically for some reason -

Source Code

Remove the package then download the VAR archive from their Github and extract the .ttf files to ~/.local/share/fonts or ~/.fonts