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athityakumar / colorls

A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:
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Installation of Nerd Font #92

Closed Baneeishaque closed 6 years ago

Baneeishaque commented 7 years ago

Is installation of Nerd Font necessory?, atleast in the case of linux? I tried first option of Nerd Font installation. But, the git clone downloads more than 1 GB (i think this is due to large size of Nerd Font repository). That's sad for me. Can you please provide a minimal installaton instructions for Nerd Font, if it is necessory for colrls? Moreover Nerd Font also provides methods to install single fonts. So, please specify which fonts are requred for colorls,if it is necessory...

Baneeishaque commented 7 years ago

I think Nerd Font is compatible with windows shells, because Nerd Font repository supplies seperate ttf files for windows. For example, these are the windows compatible version of AnonymousPro Nerd Font : https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/AnonymousPro/complete/Anonymice%20Powerline%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete%20Mono%20Windows%20Compatible.ttf , https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/AnonymousPro/complete/Anonymice%20Powerline%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete%20Windows%20Compatible.ttf

athityakumar commented 7 years ago

@Baneeishaque - Sorry for the late reply. Just installing "Knack Regular Nerd Font" should do the trick. Can you please confirm this?

duraki commented 6 years ago

I can confirm, works for me. Would be nice to put font name in installation instructions.

$ cd ~/.fonts
$ wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/Hack/Regular/complete/Knack%20Regular%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.ttf
...

$ fc-cache -f
athityakumar commented 6 years ago

@duraki - Great. Feel free to send in a PR, mentioning this just after the README's Installation section as a "Note: ". 👍

itsthomas commented 6 years ago

I cannot find any font with the name "Knack Regular Nerd Font".

benjbrandall commented 6 years ago

Me neither, getting: 2018-09-07 08:45:58 ERROR 404: Not Found. on the wget of Knack Regular provided in duraki's comment.

This worked: wget https://github.com/enricobacis/.dotfiles/blob/master/osx-fonts/Library/Fonts/Knack%20Regular%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.ttf

avdv commented 6 years ago

"Knack" is the old name of the patched "Hack" in Nerd Fonts, before the license of Hack was changed to permit derivative fonts to contain the word "Hack" itself. See https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack/pull/321

So, there is no "Knack" in Nerd Fonts anymore, just install the Hack Nerd Font.

Baneeishaque commented 6 years ago

Installation of Hack Nerd Font solved the problem. Even Hack Fonts supplies a windows installer.