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Nerd Fonts

by fibo on 11/25/19, 7:56 PM with 20 comments

• by Razengan on 11/25/19, 11:40 PM

  By the way, for those on macOS, Apple recently introduced a huge set of icons/symbols that you can resize like any other font and use anywhere within text (in macOS) or images (iOS).

  Just copy and paste the symbols like any other emoji, from the SF Symbols app:

  https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

  Not only you can use them as is in your final app, these are absolutely great in UI mockups and even placeholder game sprites.

• by joemaller1 on 11/25/19, 9:30 PM

  Nerd Fonts is a terrific resource. The project does more than just aggregate, all Nerd Font variants are patched with extra glyphs and icons allowing for much more expressive and informative (and fun) terminal prompts. It's also a great source for text editor fonts. All fonts are offered in multiple formats making it easy to match your workspace across platforms.

• by crazygringo on 11/25/19, 10:26 PM

  I don’t understand at all.

  Can someone explain why you’d want icons in the monospace font you use for development?

  I thought those icons were mainly for building websites. But those are usually triggered with a CSS class, not embedded in source code.

  What am I missing?

• by ChrisArchitect on 11/25/19, 9:34 PM

  surprised this wasn't posted on here much before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132033) Upwards of two years old

• by hprotagonist on 11/25/19, 8:19 PM

  The definitive nerd font is Computer Modern[0], i think.

  Certainly it is true that i trust anything with lots of math in it more if it is typeset in CM. Problem sets feel downright homey after a while.

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern