feat(fonts): JetBrains Mono Nerd Font on every host

The tmux statusline draws powerline/Nerd glyphs that default fonts lack,
so they render as blank/"?". tmux runs on every host (not just the Sway
ones), so install the font in the shared common-nixos module rather than
swaywm -- a future console-only or non-Sway host gets it too. The Mac
installs it via the Darwin config (/Library/Fonts). foot names it as its
main font (home/sway.nix).

On macOS, iTerm2's font is still a GUI setting: Settings -> Profiles ->
Text -> Font -> "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Emma Thorpe
2026-06-10 14:08:06 +01:00
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# text). Only colors-dark is needed; we never set initial-color-theme=light.
settings = {
main = {
# Nerd Font: monospace plus the powerline/Nerd glyphs the tmux
# statusline uses (otherwise they render as blank/"?").
font = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font:size=11";
# Advertise as xterm-256color so remote hosts without foot's terminfo
# still behave (tmux re-adds foot's RGB/sync/etc. features -- see
# shell.nix). The [main] section is the unheadered top of foot.ini.
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{
programs.zsh.enable = true;
# Install the Nerd Font into /Library/Fonts so iTerm2 can use it (set it in
# iTerm2 -> Settings -> Profiles -> Text -> Font: "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font").
# Provides the powerline/Nerd glyphs the tmux statusline draws.
fonts.packages = [ pkgs.nerd-fonts.jetbrains-mono ];
# CLI tooling sourced from nixpkgs instead of Homebrew formulae. Pure library
# dependencies are omitted; nix pulls them into closures automatically.
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
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];
# Terminal font with powerline/Nerd glyphs. Installed on every host because
# the tmux statusline (which uses these glyphs) runs everywhere, not just on
# the Sway/graphical hosts. foot names it explicitly (home/sway.nix); the Mac
# installs it via the Darwin config.
fonts.packages = [ pkgs.nerd-fonts.jetbrains-mono ];
}