05 - Install nerdfonts macOS

Contents

• YouTube video
• If you like this, and want to support me
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• Install nerdfonts

YouTube video

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• I create and edit my videos in an m1 mac mini, and it’s starting to stay behind in the editing side of things, tends to slow me down a bit, I’d like to upgrade the machine I use for all my videos to a mac mini with these specs:
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  • 24GB unified memory
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• After following this guide or even watching the related video, you:
  • Have questions related to one of the tools, configs or scripts that I use
  • Would like me to expand a bit more on how something is done
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Install nerdfonts

• https://www.nerdfonts.com is a Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher
• Different apps use nerdfonts, so we need to install a font package, else:
  • Starship fonts won’t show up properly
  • Neovim symbols will nos show up correctly
  • Other apps that use symbols will display them incorrectly
  • Demonstration in the video
• Fonts were already installed automatically by my Brewfiles, but will uninstall them so you can see how it looks like without fonts

brew uninstall font-meslo-lg-nerd-font

# Terminal symbols don't look correctly
cd ~/github/dotfiles-latest/karabiner/mxstbr

# Neovim symbols don't show up correctly
nvim

• To install the fonts again

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install --cask font-meslo-lg-nerd-font
# fc command to verify if fonts are installed
brew install fontconfig

fc-list | grep -i "Meslo"

fc-list | grep -i "MesloLGM Nerd Font"

• After this, close and re-open alacritty