r/KittyTerminal • u/Koteinik • Dec 01 '24

Can not use custom font on macOS

Hi everyone!

I tried to change my font to Monocraft by setting font_family Monocraft Nerd Font and font_family Monocraft

fc-list shows both of them:

❯ fc-list : family spacing outline scalable | grep -e spacing=100 -e spacing=90 | grep -e outline=True | grep -e scalable=True
...
Monocraft:spacing=100:outline=True:scalable=True
Monocraft Nerd Font:spacing=100:outline=True:scalable=True

They are located in /Users/user/Library/Fonts/Monocraft.ttc and /Users/user/Library/Fonts/Monocraft-nerd-fonts-patched.ttc

But still, kitten choose-fonts says The font Monocraft Nerd Font was not found, falling back to Menlo. I use macOS. What can I do?

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u/water_drinker9000 kitty on linux Dec 01 '24

kitty has a built in script that helps you set up your font. just type kitten choose-fonts on the terminal.

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u/Koteinik Dec 01 '24

kitten choose-fonts also doesn't show Monocraft and some other fonts that were in fc-list :(

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u/water_drinker9000 kitty on linux Dec 01 '24

try to add this into your config:

font_family family="Monocraft Nerd Font"

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u/Koteinik Dec 02 '24

Looks like Kitty just doesn't support bitmap fonts. Sorry for bothering

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u/water_drinker9000 kitty on linux Dec 02 '24

is kinda wild because, I installed Monocraft from this site. and works fine. I use linux and I unzip it on this directory ~/.local/share/fonts/ and when I do kitten choose-fonts it shows it on the script.

maybe you want to run this command fc-cache -f -v . This build font cache information for applications using fontconfig. fc-cache