Patched fonts madness

Author

Dheepak Krishnamurthy

Published

July 13, 2015

Keywords

fonts, osx, vim, neovim, tmux

Getting patched fonts for a powerline in the terminal can be quite an adventure, especially when you are using vim and tmux. I almost gave up on it, but now that I’ve figured it out it seems extremely obvious.

# pip install --user powerline-status
# brew install fontforge --with-python
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
cd fonts
./install.sh

Most importantly, select the font with the word powerline in the name in the preferences option of your terminal.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{krishnamurthy2015,
  author = {Krishnamurthy, Dheepak},
  title = {Patched Fonts Madness},
  date = {2015-07-13},
  url = {https://kdheepak.com/blog/patched-fonts-madness},
  langid = {en}
}

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D. Krishnamurthy, “Patched fonts madness,” Jul. 13, 2015. https://kdheepak.com/blog/patched-fonts-madness.