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Consolas for Powerline vs Inconsolata Bold for Powerline

Side-by-side comparison for macOS

Consolas for Powerline

6.0
Developer Tools

Inconsolata Bold for Powerline

8.0
Developer Tools

Metric Consolas for Powerline Inconsolata Bold for Powerline
Category Developer Tools Developer Tools
AI Score 6.0 8.0
30-day Installs 61 12
90-day Installs 190 24
365-day Installs 765 112
Version latest latest
Auto-updates No No
Deprecated No No
GitHub Stars 220 26.2K
GitHub Forks 34 3.2K
Open Issues 3 182
License BSD-2-Clause
Language Shell
Last GitHub Commit 10y ago 2y ago
First Seen May 15, 2024 May 15, 2024

Reviews

Consolas for Powerline

Consolas for Powerline is a specially patched font designed for use with Vim Powerline, offering regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic variants. It benefits developers who use Powerline in Vim for a consistent and visually appealing experience.

Provides a patched Consolas font optimized for Vim Powerline with multiple style variants.

Pros

  • + Tailored for Vim Powerline, enhancing the user experience.
  • + Comprehensive font variants including regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic.
  • + BSD-2-Clause license offers permissive open-source terms.

Cons

  • - No auto-update feature, requiring manual checks for updates.
  • - Inactive development since 2016 may lead to compatibility issues.

Inconsolata Bold for Powerline

Inconsolata Bold for Powerline is a highly-customized font designed specifically for Powerline users, offering support for Powerline symbols and improved readability in terminal environments. It is a must-have for developers who rely on Powerline for terminal prompts.

Provides a font optimized for Powerline, enhancing the display of terminal prompts with proper symbol support.

Pros

  • + Essential for Powerline users to display terminal prompts correctly
  • + Highly customizable with support for various terminal emulators
  • + Large and active community contributing to the project

Cons

  • - Compatibility issues with newer terminal versions like iTerm2
  • - No auto-updates feature, requiring manual checks for updates