Render Nerd Font prompt glyphs in the terminal - #767
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- Give the terminal its own --font-terminal stack led by JetBrains Mono Nerd Font - Name common Nerd Fonts as fallbacks since WebKit skips user icon fonts for PUA glyphs - Leave --font-mono unchanged for the editor and other monospace UI - Add coverage that the terminal reads --font-terminal Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 71-75: Reorder the fallback families in --font-terminal so
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🟡 Minor · Keep --font-terminal in emitted CSS. · index.css:69-79
src/styles/index.css:69-79
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep
--font-terminalin emitted CSS.Tailwind omits unused variables from ordinary
@themeoutput. No production CSS uses this variable;TerminalViewonly reads it withgetComputedStyle. When a terminal view mounts, the lookup is empty and xterm receives the generic monospace fallback instead of this declaration’s Nerd Font stack. Move the declaration into a separate@theme staticblock.Suggested fix
--font-mono: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", monospace; +} + +@theme static { /* Terminal-only stack. JetBrains Mono Nerd Font leads so prompt text and icons share one face; the Nerd Font families after the system monos fill Private Use Area glyphs (powerline arrows, git/folder icons) because @@ "FiraCode Nerd Font Mono", "Hack Nerd Font Mono", "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font Mono", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", monospace; +} + +@theme { --font-sans:🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Only xterm reads --font-terminal, from JS, so Tailwind could tree-shake it out of the build. Declare it in an @theme static block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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185-203: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the stylesheet declaration too.
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TerminalViewforwards an inline value. It does not loadsrc/styles/index.css, so removing or renaming the declared stack would not fail the test. In the app,terminalFont()would then use its generic monospace fallback. Add an assertion for the stylesheet declaration alongside the existing handoff assertion.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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What changed
The terminal now uses its own
--font-terminalfont stack. JetBrains Mono Nerd Font comes first, followed by the system monospace fonts and then common Nerd Fonts as fallbacks.--font-mono, which the editor,font-monoutility classes and other monospace UI use, is unchanged.Why
Prompt glyphs from Nerd Font themes (powerline arrows, Apple/folder/git icons, battery) rendered blank in the terminal. These glyphs are in the Unicode Private Use Area, and WebKit's font fallback never picks them up from user-installed icon fonts, so a font that contains them has to be named explicitly in the stack. iTerm2 and Synara show them because both use a Nerd Font for the terminal.
Ran the terminal tests (69 passing) and
tsc --noEmit, and confirmed the new test fails if the terminal reads--font-monoagain.UI
Before: the prompt is missing its powerline separators and icons.
After: the prompt matches iTerm2 and Synara.
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