Effective Nerd Fonts in Multiple Terminals

In this video I focus on how to find, download, and install nerd fonts, and then set up the font in 4 different terminal emulators (iTerm, Alacritty, Kitty, and WezTerm). Then I expand to show alternate techniques to support Nerd Icons without using a patched font.

Here are some links mentioned in the video...

0:00 Introduction
0:58 What are Nerd Fonts
1:18 Installing a Nerd Font
2:31 iTerm Emulator
3:15 Search for Nerd Font on Web
3:30 Test Fonts Shell Script
3:51 Alacritty Emulator
4:49 Kitty Emulator
5:57 Kitty Unicode Picker
6:27 Kitty Fallback Font
9:03 WezTerm Emulator
10:37 iTerm Fallback Font
11:25 Alacritty Fallback Font
12:09 Conclusion

#terminal #neovim #vim #font #commandline

[ElijahManor]

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[iatheman]

Dude, the level of detail and simplicity in explaining what’s up with these crazy OS’s and terminals in the insane world of fonts….

Great video!

[driden]

This is CRAZY, how did I not know about font fallback? Thanks Elijah

[Theosibo]

I've been on the hunt for nice iconography in my terminal since mid last year when I started building my arch box. Kitty was the one that came closest but the were just slightly off and all the other terminals were worse. Thanks to this video, I now have wezterm with everything looking CHOICE thanks to your tips. Who knows how long it would have taken me to figure out that fallback font trick. THANK YOU! Definitely subscribed for more linux nerdery!

[yoryerpy]

I've been watching your videos for the last month and I enjoyed every single one. They are easy to follow and well-explained. I've switched to wezterm for the 'ssh' functionality that supposedly gives you your own environment/configuration on remote servers, including things like tmux. Would you like to explore those types of functionalities, those that give you the ability to use your own config on remote servers? I've been working a lot on remote machines as dev environments and sometimes not having all the things I'm used to is kinda a pain in the neck. Keep going Elijah!

[isaacvicente]

Nice! I didn't know about this Kitty feature that loads Unicode symbols! Great video btw.

[esra_erimez]

Wow, wow, wow! (Ryan George voice) I *really* needed this video!!! Thank you so very much!!!

[PhuwanartLarpmark]

Thank you very much. I am currently suffering from a headache due to this problem.

[maxreuv]

Exceptionally comprehensive and useful, thank you!

[marioandresheviacavieres]

heck yes! I was following your other video about lazyvim...
started following your channel.

[IgorGuerrero]

Please send this to Prime so he fixes his fonts it makes me cringe to see somebody showing how cool their editor is and doesn't even have proper fonts configured

[dlvhdr]

Excellent video, thank you! I wonder why kitty needs to have ranges defined while other terminals deal with fallback fonts more gracefully out of the box

[Bruno-jjvt]

I was searching for that kind of video for month, very clear explanation, thanks!

[draylegend]

solved issue on windows terminal. Had just to change the font to installed ones and it worked.
Thx!

[askegg]

Thank you. Now I finally have proper ligatures and symbols in nvim.

[RaffRodriiguez]

Nice tips! I've been using the last one for sometime and it works great for non-patched fonts.

[emmanuellmiqueletti]

I'm new to vim and for me a font icon is a must otherwise I wouldn't use it. Thanks for sharing this.

[AnDrU]

Just yesterday fixed this in my nvim... Great video!

[sumedh-girish]

This video was super helpful, so I double booped the like button. It was noticeably cheerful the first time, but managed to compose itself when I did it again.

[rodelias]

Thanks @ThePrimeagen for such a great video!!