# Making my own Nerd Font Well-structured status lines in [[vim]] and shell prompts with [[Git version control|git]] symbols are a nice quality-of-life improvement. Unfortunately, not all monospace fonts come with the necessary PowerLine glyphs. For example, my favourite font is [Operator Mono](https://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator), and it too doesn't have PowerLine symbols built in. Thanks to the [NerdFonts font patcher](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-own-font), I was able to generate a font variant that has the necessary symbols. I simply ran the tool as a Docker container in my fonts directory: ``` $ mkdir HCo_OperatorMonoSSmNF $ docker run --rm -v $PWD/HCo_OperatorMonoSSm/OpenType:/in \ -v $PWD/HCo_OperatorMonoSSmNF:/out \ nerdfonts/patcher --windows --powerline --powerlineextra ``` Now my [spaceship](https://github.com/spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt) shell prompt sparks even more joy.