Liven Up Your Terminal with Nerd Fonts
If you spend your time in the Terminal, you probably want your stay to be pleasant. In an earlier post, I shared an aesthetic method of customizing your Terminal’s color scheme, by way of Root Loops. This go around, we’ll look at customizing your Terminal typefaces with Nerd Fonts.
Nerd fonts aren’t just type substitutions. They also add a high number of extra glyphs that you can use to identify file types, folders and the like – right from within your Terminal.
A standard listing, followed by a listing using Nerd Fonts. At a glance, each file has a glyph that represents it.
Folders have glyphs to make it easier to identify them from other items in your directory.
I have to say, I’m a fan of Nerd Fonts, having only discovered it earlier this morning. The site includes a listing of typefaces, along with detailed previews, so you can determine which ones you’d like to download.
So many cool fonts to choose from. The “info” field is handy at providing additional information about the typeface and its use case.
It’s very easy to switch between font previews on the Nerd Font website. See what you like and then you can download it. Nerd Fonts does a great job of providing several serif and sans-serif fonts to choose from. Some are modern, while others evoke machines from an earlier time (like the BigBlueTerm Nerd Font, which is based on the IBM8x14 EGA/VGA charset).
Quickly preview each of the fonts by selecting the one you want to look at on the left column. The output appears on the right column.
My current favorites are Monaspice Nerd Font (which includes 5 matching fonts, all having ‘texture healing’ to improve readability) and SpaceMono Nerd Font (squarish fonts that are more modern looking).
All the Nerd Fonts are free, and work on Mac, Windows and Linux machines. A bargain indeed!
–Krishna
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