Add Icons to your Fonts with Nerd Fonts

[@bernizhel]

Thank you creating such a helpful tutorial, couldn't understand why my terminal wasn't able to display the icons, but with your explanation I now configured my machine properly! 👏

[@pablocardona8158]

I just spent like 2 hours reading readmes not really sure how to make my vim icons work, and thanks to you sir my terminal looks amazing. Thank you!

[@deandrenelson7738]

Not sure what was the issue but I was getting weird spacing issues between the letters for the Hack font. My fix was to write "Hack Nerd Font" instead of "Hack" in the alacritty.yml file. (Linux distro: ubuntu). Thanks for making this video, Chris. Hope my fix helps someone.

[@chrisatmachine]

A very similar thing happened to me, thought I was the only one...

[@ssmith99]

You're a life saver

[@jmrah]

This was a really good explanation and walkthrough of nerd-fonts. Thank you.

[@马城林]

Thanks from China, watching your video I finally understand how to use and install Nerd font, thank you very much🥰

[@DIEmicrosoft]

Will HackNerdFont replace the normal HackFont I already have, or does it install beside it?

[@baphomet8958]

omfg its realy like my tutor said: "People are always arguing about IDE Stuff, then they realize all they need is a simple Editor with some formatting functions and in the end they will be trying to create a new IDE out of an basic Editor ... Its always the same ! " While watching this kind of Videos now for more than 2h now i start to realize hes completly right ! So in the end i will take Jetbrains IDE's (because they are nearly fully automated) and using vim plugin inside it -> best of both worlds ❤

[@yekna459]

Can you tell me which fonts do you use using Hack font wasn't enough there are some fonts missing for me on Pop OS?

[@ra2carrier749]

Great tutorial! But, how do you make you console hint the path while typing ?

[@zennmyst5347]

I am new to all of this... New to Linux and new to vim. But I could not get this to work. I am running Linux Mint 20.1 and yes I am running vim 8 and not neovim. Could it be as simple as that? The only way I got it to work was to install vim-devicons plugin. Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

[@qaq_tw5200]

what is the plugin in your terminal that can prompt the directory with gray word?

[@anmol_tomer]

I am fairly new to the using Vim, I am having trouble enabling font ligatures.I am using ZSH in gnome terminal. I have followed the steps but my -> aren't getting converted to smooth fonts which we like to see. Can you help me out.

[@antonioochoa3482]

Your terminal emulator should have ligatures support. For example, Fira Code's GitHub tells you wich terminal emulators are compatible with that font: github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#terminal-compatibility-list. It says that Gnome terminal doesn't support ligatures for Fira Code

[@anmol_tomer]

@@antonioochoa3482 Appreciate the reply. Thank you for letting me know.

[@antonioochoa3482]

@@anmol_tomer You're welcome 👌🏻

[@ShamilSattarov]

Hey! How you got ligatures working in Alacritty?

[@lorensims4846]

Why would you want ligatures in a terminal font? I would personally prefer to have a monospaced font there as well.

[@danieldweebler3392]

I have downloaded a bunch of fonts, but I'm not getting the right icons. My .vim files are getting a cellphone full wifi logo. My cpp files are getting a telephone max volume icon... I'm using the default Ubuntu terminal. The way I changed my font was to use the terminal preference gui. Any help would be much appreciated.

[@RobertCastilloC]

7:25 how can I get that feature showing highlight colors from its code #333 I use alacritty

[@RobertCastilloC]

Already found out. It is a neovim plugin: colorizer. Has nothing to do with alacritty

[@joshua1580]

Font config video would be great,

[@ewhac]

6:28: Erm... Is there something wrong with "ls *Hack*"?

[@pcodes]

Thanks, Chris.

[@xGshikamaru]

I'm fond of the Terminus font, because it's very readable even at a small size, so if I want these (say, the branch character for instance) how can I use them without changing my font outside of doing my own font? Up until now I used to install dejavu or noto-fonts alongside terminus, so that if a character isn't found in terminus it's displayed from another font that features it. There's something flawed in my mind about changing a whole font just to display a few specific characters

[@akashtriz]

Woohoo...nice ....keep at it bro! 🥰🤗👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤩

[@Илья-й8э2и]

sorry i copied the fonts to ˜/.local/share/fonts But alacritty still no icons showing :( only empty boxes, how to fix this? can you help please?

[@winfredj9820]

blog link is broken for me.

[@jared8411]

I should have watched this video before I started. When I first loaded nvim it had icons that didn't show up and I spent a bunch of time figuring out what was wrong, then how to fix it, and it just turned out to be not having a nerd-font installed.

[@JordhanRDZ]

Blog post does not exist anymore... getting 404

[@MatRIVERAGALVEZERNESTO]

Where is located Ubuntu's terminal file config?

[@vimalmollyn9263]

can't access the old website anymore! :/

[@srrandom23]

Sure, but how to use it on zsh?

[@al-du6lb]

I'm using Alacritty and having a strange issue. The font proportions are all wrong, and I've tried several different nerd fonts and they all render as the exact same font but with messed up spacing. I've tried a bunch of different attempts to fix this to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I'm on manjaro.

[@Cswiss12]

I have the same issue with Alacritty, anyone know why this is happening?

[@al-du6lb]

@@Cswiss12 I didn't put too much more time into this, but never figured it out. I just kept my default font and the icons work correctly, but I cannot change the font. If you figure this out, let me know.

[@ongkenneth308]

I tried that also,I'm a noob but I found that in the alacritty.yml I need to specify the full font name in the config file. For example, "Hack Nerd Font" or "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font".And the name of these can be get by running "fc-list | grep 'Hack'" for example, and it will show up the font name and the type available at the end of each line

[@nicklesseos]

I just switched to termite :/ not the best solution

[@al-du6lb]

@@nicklesseos What I ended up doing was manually installing JetBrainsMono and nerd fonts icons and that seems to be the only font I can get to work with alacritty with all the icons working properly. It would be nice to switch the font, but I'm perfectly happy with the current set up. www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

[@eugeniogonzato]

Hi the link to your blog do not works

[@Karsteski]

Very helpful, thank you so much!

[@manjubeli]

Amazing video, Finally connived me to jump to NVIM. Btw, please share your zsh/bash profile, I like your simplistic prompt and would like to set mine same.

[@victorkwasara]

how do you set that on in .zshrc

[@13eau33]

Thanks! really helpful.

[@chrisatmachine]

You're welcome

[@douglaswright4716]

On MacOS here, my stumbling block was whatever install process I used put the fonts under user/me/library/fonts instead of /library/fonts. I had to cp the folder over and then use the FontBook app to install each font.

[@parabolaaa]

yeah but how do i enable them

[@pythusiast4701]

Very Welldone

[@hectorPerez-qf1ho]

The post in the blog is down bro

[@svenbjorn9700]

Title is misleading. This is about how to use existing nerd fonts, not how to add icons to your fonts.

[@thiagolopes4978]

Only worked after copying the name from command fc-list.

[@adityaheart9671]

How to set up icons for coc-explorer??

[@MrZombieSwamp]

Hey Chris, could you make a video on setting up polybar?

[@chrisatmachine]

Victor Locatelli just got my setup back after moving out of Philly. New videos should be coming soon and polybar will most likely be among them.

[@TOn-fx2gr]

Pls Can you do a vidéo about vim-devicons ?

[@chrisatmachine]

I'll add it to the list.

[@frajadita]

Less is more... Good video

[@hanspetervollhorst1]

404 for blog entry

[@japhethjay4880]

Yo bro wanna patch my fonts hahaha

[@ricardorien]

Post down.

[@JACOBSAYONO]

how do i select the font for lunarvim when i've already moved the .ttf to .config/share/fonts i'm using ubuntu 20.04

[@chrisatmachine]

you need to select it in your terminal settings

[@harshwardhanshetty4683]

did u resolved this issue?

[@JACOBSAYONO]

@@harshwardhanshetty4683 yeah it's the most important step but they didn't mention it lol. right click on your terminal > preference > select font

[@harshwardhanshetty4683]

@@JACOBSAYONO mannnnn i resinstalled so many shits to do this and then I tired this and it worked for me 😑😑

[@JACOBSAYONO]

@@harshwardhanshetty4683 hahaha i knoww took me a while bc there were literally no answers online but hey that's the beauty of self-learning :D