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A Modular Status Bar for dwm.
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what fonts do you use? #38

Open RobinHirst11 opened 1 month ago

RobinHirst11 commented 1 month ago

hello! i currently have ttf-font-awesome and ttf-jetbrains-mono installed, it works for all apart from localip

do you mind sharing what font is best for this?

thytom commented 1 month ago

Hello!

It's been a few years since I've used this myself but I would always recommend Nerd Fonts. It bundles a load of icons including fontawesome together and patches popular fonts with them.

A lot of people like inconsolata, I use GoMono. If you're on arch, I'd avoid the AUR packages and instead install them manually in .local/share/fonts and calling fc-cache as https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts suggests.

thytom commented 1 month ago

As an aside, you can also patch other fonts, like jetbrains, with the nerdfont icons manually. I've not done this in a long time though. Check out https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts for more details on that.

If you don't want to go the font route at all, you can always follow the "Writing Modules" section of the readme and just set $PREFIX="", or set it to your own icon (like one available in font-awesome)