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imported>Extends Integrated the option to use to download only certain fonts from nerdfonts repository on unstable. |
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fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [ | fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [ | ||
nerdfonts.override { | (nerdfonts.override { | ||
fonts = [ "FiraCode" "DroidSansMono" ]; | fonts = [ "FiraCode" "DroidSansMono" ]; | ||
} | }) | ||
]; | ]; | ||
} | } | ||
Revision as of 11:44, 18 August 2020
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 NixOS options 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
];
Installing specific fonts from nerdfonts
You probably want to install some fonts from nerdfonts repository and not the entiere repository (take much time to install all the fonts). To achieve that on stable 20.03, you can use an overlay created by LightDiscord. Here is an example of how to use it:
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
nixpkgs.overlays = [ (import ./nix-nerd-fonts-overlay/default.nix) ]; #Assuming you cloned the repository on the same directory
fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [
nerd-fonts.firacode
nerd-fonts.jetbrainsmono
nerd-fonts.droidsansmono
];
}
This will cause NixOS to download only fira code, jetbrains mono and droid sans mono fonts from nerd-fonts instead of the whole package.
On unstable however, there's a built-in option that looks like that :
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [
(nerdfonts.override {
fonts = [ "FiraCode" "DroidSansMono" ];
})
];
}
This will cause NixOS to download only fira code and droid sans mono fonts from nerd-fonts instead of the whole package.
Imperative installation of user fonts
This is useful for quick font experiments.
Example: Install SourceCodePro-Regular.
font=$(nix-build --no-out-link '<nixpkgs>' -A source-code-pro)/share/fonts/opentype/SourceCodePro-Regular.otf
cp $font ~/.local/share/fonts
fc-cache
# Verify that the font has been installed
fc-list -v | grep -i source
Set multiple fonts for different languages
If you are not a native English speaker and want to use another languages alongside English, you may want to set appropriate fonts for each language in your whole OS. In NixOS, it's so easy. Imagine I'm a Persian speaker and I want to set "Vazir" font to Persian texts and "Ubuntu" font for English texts. Just put these lines into your configuration.nix:
#----=[ Fonts ]=----#
fonts = {
enableDefaultFonts = true;
fonts = [
pkgs.ubuntu_font_family
# Persian Fonts
pkgs.vazir-fonts
];
fontconfig = {
penultimate.enable = false;
defaultFonts = {
serif = [ "Vazir" "Ubuntu" ];
sansSerif = [ "Vazir" "Ubuntu" ];
monospace = [ "Ubuntu" ];
};
};
};
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]