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* <code>fonts.enableGhostscriptFonts</code>: affects the <code>ghostscript</code> package. Ghostscript packages some URW fonts for the standard PostScript typefaces. If <code>true</code>, these fonts will be visible to GUI applications. You could set it to <code>true</code> if you want these fonts, but <code>gyre-fonts</code> (part of <code>fonts.enableDefaultPackages</code>) might be higher-quality depending on your judgement.

=== Installing specific ~~fonts from~~ nerdfonts ===

=== Installing specific nerdfonts ===

Before Nixpkgs commit [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/de4dbc58fdeb84694d47d6c3f7b9f04a57cc4231 de4dbc5] that provides individual Nerd Fonts packages under the name <code>nerd-fonts</code>, the <code>nerdfonts</code> package, which contains all fonts from the [https://www.nerdfonts.com/ nerdfonts] repository was quite large and contained a large number of fonts which took some time to install. If you only need a selection of fonts from the package, you can overwrite the font selection on Stable 20.09 like so:

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 * <code>fonts.enableGhostscriptFonts</code>: affects the <code>ghostscript</code> package. Ghostscript packages some URW fonts for the standard PostScript typefaces. If <code>true</code>, these fonts will be visible to GUI applications. You could set it to <code>true</code> if you want these fonts, but <code>gyre-fonts</code> (part of <code>fonts.enableDefaultPackages</code>) might be higher-quality depending on your judgement.
-=== Installing specific fonts from nerdfonts ===
+=== Installing specific nerdfonts ===
 Before Nixpkgs commit [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/de4dbc58fdeb84694d47d6c3f7b9f04a57cc4231 de4dbc5] that provides individual Nerd Fonts packages under the name <code>nerd-fonts</code>, the <code>nerdfonts</code> package, which contains all fonts from the [https://www.nerdfonts.com/ nerdfonts] repository was quite large and contained a large number of fonts which took some time to install. If you only need a selection of fonts from the package, you can overwrite the font selection on Stable 20.09 like so: