In coming releases, fonts will be a dropdown selection rather than free text which will make it easier to select fonts. Open your PowerShell Appearance Settings again (as above), and type in CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font into Font face. You then need to tell Windows Terminal to use the font. Once downloaded, unzip and open Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font Complete.ttf and install it: I like Cascadia Code, so the equivalent Nerd Font is Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font, which you can download here. If you head over to Nerd Fonts downloads, you’ll find lots of different fonts. To fix this, we need a Nerd Font that includes all of these glyphs. Oh my Posh is great and all, but you might notice that the prompt doesn’t look right some of the glyph characters are just boxes. In this case I’m using the paradox theme, but you could use any theme available with Get-PoshThemes, or one that you’ve created.

To import your theme on startup, open your PowerShell profile with: notepad $PROFILEĪnd add the following line: Set-PoshPrompt -Theme paradox You can see available themes with: Get-PoshThemes Then, you’ll want to pick a theme and set it to import when your terminal/PowerShell starts. Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser

To go from the standard PowerShell prompt, to the one that you keep seeing on other devs laptops, you need Oh my Posh. You’ll also want to set the Background image opacity to around 50% so that text shows up clearly: To add a background image in Windows Terminal: No terminal is complete without an awesome background image. This way, it will be automatically kept up to date for you. If you haven’t already got Windows Termianl, the recommended way to install it is via the Microsoft Store. This is a quick post on how to customise it with a theme, fonts and icons.ĭisclaimer: I’m completely ripping off Kayla Cinnamon’s video, but thought I’d put it into writing so it’s easier to find and use.

I’ve been using Windows Terminal more and more over the past couple of months, and have really come to love it.

Windows terminal font change