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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
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kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.
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cascadia-code
This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
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juliamono
JuliaMono is a monospaced font for scientific and technical users, with comprehensive Unicode support.
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caskaydia-cove
Caskaydia Cove is a fork of the Cascadia Code typeface with the RFN (Reserved Font Name) removed, plus small adjustments to conform to the Google Fonts spec.
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Start with NvChad
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
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CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
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-...
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Setting Up Nerd Fonts in Alacritty on Ubuntu
# 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
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# 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
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Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
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...
- 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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ryanoasis/nerd-fonts is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of nerd-fonts is CSS.
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