Using fonts in a nix-shell, handy discovery
Using fonts in a nix-shell, handy discovery
Thought this would be fun and potentially handy for others to share. I recently did some work with Typst, and the template I ended up using made use of fonts not in my system install.
I was curious if you could use fonts in a nix-shell. Simply adding a font package via nix-shell doesn't make it accesible to applications.
Thanks to this forum post, I ran a test using makeFontsConf
, and it works! The way I used it it does require a .nix file, but I'm sure you could turn it into some one-line magic.
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }: let fontsConf = pkgs.makeFontsConf { fontDirectories = [ pkgs.font-awesome pkgs.fira pkgs.noto-fonts pkgs.roboto ]; }; in pkgs.mkShell { nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs.buildPackages; [ typst ]; shellHook = '' export FONTCONFIG_FILE="${fontsConf}" ''; }