[DiabloD3]

So, the issue with nerdfonts is the project, itself, is broken and flawed.

They use the nerdfont patcher, which mainly mutilates fonts, and often breaks them trying to add the nerdfont glyphs. The nerdfonts project also distributes these broken fonts while ignoring the font licenses, and also ignoring the fact that fonts update and then nerdfonts refuses to patch and distribute the new version.

Many projects distribute both OTF and TTF versions, while nerdfonts only distributes the patched OTF version (as you, indeed, have noticed).

The upside is, since the patcher exists, you can just run it on your own fonts and do whatever you want.

I highly recommend avoiding nerdfonts altogether, disable it in any program you find it in, and also consider filing bugs with those projects to entice them to remove support entirely.

Unicode exists for a reason, and fonts should strive to cover as much of it as possible. Corporate logos and custom icons should not be enshrined into any font, not even as something niche like nerdfonts, even if nerdfonts lives entirely in the Unicode private use area (PUA).

[Night_Thastus]

>So, the issue with nerdfonts is the project, itself, is broken and flawed.

The issue also lays with LSD, since they recommend Nerd Fonts.

[DiabloD3]

Partially, yeah.

I always try to push projects to, if they choose to support nerdfonts, to default to off. It is confusing for new users to have to install a specific font (especially when they probably already have their chosen font, and possibly one that can't be nerdfont patched) to use a program.

LSD, in particular, can just either turn symbols off or just map them to commonly available Unicode symbols (a "well formed" terminal font covers most of, if not all, of the Box Drawing, Geo Shapes, Legacy Computing, and Arrows Unicode blocks, which is all you really need).