Patched fonts madness

12 Jul, 2015

1 min read (57 words)

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.

Citation

@online{krishnamurthy2015patchedfontsmadness,
  author = {Dheepak Krishnamurthy},
  title = {Patched fonts madness},
  year = {2015},
  date = {2015-07-12},
  url = {https://kdheepak.com/blog/patched-fonts-madness/},
  langid = {en},
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Dheepak Krishnamurthy, "Patched fonts madness", July 12, 2015 https://kdheepak.com/blog/patched-fonts-madness/

Share this post on:

Create Emacsclient.app using AppleScript

Better git log with git ls