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vim-powerline patched fonts
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@teoljungberg
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My statusline looks strange with the Inconsolata font. This is in vim inside iTerm. It works just fine with MacVim

http://cl.ly/1M1C2T161E2D2S0f0w17

Have anyone got any idea?

@bmcorser
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I just downloaded Mensch and this is crazy.

@supr
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supr commented Jul 3, 2012

@metamorfos i think you might have to increase the size of your status bar.

@teoljungberg
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@metamorfos i think you might have to increase the size of your status bar.

that, amongst other things, did it @supr

@J-Swift
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J-Swift commented Sep 1, 2012

I had the same issue as metamorfos (using terminal vim and iTerm2) and found 2 ways to fix it. One, you can choose a different font. Two, you can mess with the vertical line height of the terminal font. Hope that helps someone.

@dz
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dz commented Sep 13, 2012

Thanks much for the inconsolata-dz patch! :) I love powerline.

@davidchambers
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I just patched Inconsolata (after battling to get fontforge to compile). I made the following tweak to get the arrows to line up perfectly:

diff --git a/fontpatcher/fontpatcher b/fontpatcher/fontpatcher
index 2c54a3f..6e75838 100755
--- a/fontpatcher/fontpatcher
+++ b/fontpatcher/fontpatcher
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ for font_path in args.fonts:
        font.transform(psMat.translate(0, font_dim['ymax'] - sym_dim['ymax']))

        # Then move it the y center difference
-       font.transform(psMat.translate(0, sym_ycenter - font_ycenter))
+       font.transform(psMat.translate(0, sym_ycenter - font_ycenter - 66))

        # Ensure that the glyph doesn't extend outside the font's bounding box
        if sym_dim['width'] > font_dim['width']:

@colemickens
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Love to see this for Adobe's new Source Code Pro.

@joshmosh
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joshmosh commented Oct 5, 2012

  • 1 for Monaco

@ruaz
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ruaz commented Nov 26, 2012

@davidchambers Excellent work, thank you! Finally, I have a decent looking status bar.

@hit9
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hit9 commented Jan 1, 2013

cool, i like it !

@zhm
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zhm commented Feb 11, 2013

I ended up having to make some tweaks to the fontpatcher script to get Inconsolata-dz to line up perfectly in MacVim.

Here is my font file for anyone else who stumbles upon this: http://cl.ly/3Q362Q2M1e1h

Enabled using set guifont=Inconsolata-dz\ for\ Powerline:h13

Here are my changes to the fontpatcher script:

diff --git a/fontpatcher/fontpatcher b/fontpatcher/fontpatcher
index 2c54a3f..4826d9d 100755
--- a/fontpatcher/fontpatcher
+++ b/fontpatcher/fontpatcher
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ for font_path in args.fonts:
                        # Stretch the glyph vertically
                        scale_ratio = font_dim['height'] / sym_dim['height']

-                       font.transform(psMat.scale(1, scale_ratio))
+                       font.transform(psMat.scale(1, scale_ratio * 1.3))

                # Use the dimensions from the pasted and stretched glyph
                sym_dim = get_dim(font[sym_glyph.unicode])
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ for font_path in args.fonts:
                font.transform(psMat.translate(0, font_dim['ymax'] - sym_dim['ymax']))

                # Then move it the y center difference
-               font.transform(psMat.translate(0, sym_ycenter - font_ycenter))
+               font.transform(psMat.translate(0, sym_ycenter - font_ycenter + 60))

                # Ensure that the glyph doesn't extend outside the font's bounding box
                if sym_dim['width'] > font_dim['width']:

@dvcrn
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dvcrn commented Jun 26, 2013

Can someone update these fonts to the new code points? ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#1872

@justin8
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justin8 commented Jul 6, 2013

You can get the menlo patched font at least from my dotfiles here:
https://github.com/justin8/dotfiles/tree/master/install-files/fonts

I couldn't find a decent font with the new code points, so I ripped the menlo ttc from OS X and patched it.

@kevinrenskers
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The best source for the updated fonts seems to be https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts

@choucavalier
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@justin8 your Menlo font is not working

Can someone provide a Menlo patched font please ?

@monokrome
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@Toogy Not sure if this works for you, but this copy of Menlo seems to have solved the problem for myself.

@mt54636
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mt54636 commented Mar 7, 2014

I don't know if this helps anyone else, try changing your iTerm's profile to Pastel (Dark Background). It fixed the icon display issue for me. My terminal now looks exactly like http://www.paradox.io/posts/9-my-new-zsh-prompt. FYI, I did install the above fonts.

@phaberest
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Superlative work!

@trusktr
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trusktr commented Dec 27, 2014

These fonts don't seem to work? I just installed these, along with Prezto, then when I choose one of these fonts in iTerm2, the font changes in the terminal, but the ugly symbols remain (I don't see the nice powerline triangles).

@marbon87
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I have the same problem as trukstr. I installed the fonts from https://github.com/powerline/fonts but not all icons are shown correctly

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ghost commented Jul 12, 2015

Thank you!

@topdown
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topdown commented Jun 16, 2016

Once you go through the font installation you need to set the fonts in whatever you are using for that profile.
For me it was iTerm2 on latest Mac OSx
Go to preferences > select the profile you are using > Text tab
Now set both the Font and Non-ASCII Font to one the ends in Powerline.
screen shot 2016-06-16 at 1 35 32 pm

If there are not fonts that end in Powerline it is not installed correctly.
Frankly with all of the issues I was surprised I got it to work in 2016 :)

screen shot 2016-06-16 at 1 34 55 pm

@sghiassy
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sghiassy commented Oct 4, 2016

@yammyxing
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Thx :)

@suilu
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suilu commented Dec 15, 2016

Thank you!

@freehuntman
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awesome~

@mrleblanc101
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@topdown What's the bullet and the plus sign after the branch name ? I don't have this using the exact same theme but with SourceCode Pro for Powerline ?

@floviolleau
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