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NixOS has many font packages available, and you can easily search for your favourites on the [https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html# NixOS packages site]. | NixOS has many font packages available, and you can easily search for your favourites on the [https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html# NixOS packages site]. | ||
Despite looking like normal packages, simply adding these font packages to your <code>environment.systemPackages</code> won't make the fonts accessible to applications. To achieve that, put these packages in the <code>fonts.fonts</code> | Despite looking like normal packages, simply adding these font packages to your <code>environment.systemPackages</code> won't make the fonts accessible to applications. To achieve that, put these packages in the <code>fonts.fonts</code> list instead. | ||
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Revision as of 09:40, 5 December 2018
Installing fonts on NixOS
NixOS has many font packages available, and you can easily search for your favourites on the NixOS packages site.
Despite looking like normal packages, simply adding these font packages to your environment.systemPackages won't make the fonts accessible to applications. To achieve that, put these packages in the fonts.fonts list instead.
For example:
fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [
noto-fonts
noto-fonts-cjk
noto-fonts-emoji
liberation_ttf
fira-code
fira-code-symbols
mplus-outline-fonts
dina-font
proggyfonts
];
Troubleshooting
What font names can be used in fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.monospace?
Those that fontconfig will understand. This can be queried from a font file using fc-query.
$ cd /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/sw/share/X11-fonts
$ fc-query DejaVuSans.ttf | grep '^\s\+family:' | cut -d'"' -f2
Adding personal fonts to ~/.fonts doesn't work
The ~/.fonts is being deprecated upstream[1]. It already is not working with NixOS.
The new preferred location is in $XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts, which for most users will resolve to ~/.local/share/fonts[2]