Installing powerline fonts for zsh + Prezto theme

Question

I am currently using Zsh + Prezto for my scripting shell configuration. I have been using the sorin theme but am a little dissatisfied with it. I\'d like to switch

Answer 1

If you're a macOS user, the Powerline glyphs are now built-in to iTerm (as of 3.3.7, 17 Nov 2019) but disabled by default.

You can enable the fonts by toggling the checkbox in iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Text:

Any newly opened Terminal windows will render supported Unicode characters as glyphs, as shown the following screenshot test.

$ echo "\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699"

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If you'd rather manually manage the installation of the Powerline Symbols, you can use Homebrew Casks:

$ brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts

$ brew cask install font-powerline-symbols

This will install the PowerlineSymbols.otf typeface for you to use system-wide.