EVevo_9·Apr 8, 2021Submission
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fonts
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powerline / fonts
fonts
Patched fonts for Powerline users.
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Patched fonts for Powerline users.
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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7 sourcesOf all things in the world to say, congratulations to Microsoft for their work on Cascadia Code: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
It's hard to do these fonts justice via preview alone, but in whole it's very legible to read.
Aside: If you want fast access to a ton of fixed-width (coding) fonts, pre-patched for powerline, you can grab them at https://github.com/powerline/fonts.
If you do CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters in the terminal and want crisp, bitmap ligatures, I recommend Wen Quan Yi Micro Hei. But it doesn't work well scaled up in HiDPI monitors unfortunately! CJK in the terminal is still kind of a mystery to me.
In Lesser Known Coding FontsIt would be cool to see the powerline symbols to be added to Unicode. The necessary user base should be already there.
See: https://github.com/powerline/fonts/blob/master/README.rst
A zsh theme with those characters in use: https://gist.github.com/agnoster/3712874
In How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)The font is monofur, my favourite programming font. You can download here https://github.com/powerline/fonts
In A full-featured form software built with love in pythonafter having installed it,
$ cp ~/.tmux/.tmux.conf.local ~/
Then edit `.tmux.conf.local` and uncomment the #tmux_conf_theme=powerline_patched_font line.
For the powerline symbol to work, you need patched fonts: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
In My self-contained Tmux configurationI think a good chunk of the reason why people use Sublime is because it looks so damn good. I was hoping this would too, but I guess that's difficult with a terminal-based editor.
Also, anyone know which (if any) of the patched Powerline fonts [0] have the hand unicode icon? (It's slap's icon, and it looks ugly without it.)
[0] https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
In Slap: Terminal-based text editorMenlo Regular for Powerline. Yeah Powerline setup is not very clean, but once it's up and running, it looks great. You have to compile the fonts with he special Powerline symbols order to get it to work properly. Here are some fonts that are already pre-complied[1].
[1] - https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
In Customizing Your Bash Prompt