Glyph Sets

A glyph is a symbol shown beside a file or folder name. Choose a set that suits your terminal font: detailed icons with NerdFonts, ordinary symbols with Unicode, or text labels with ANSI.

Built-in Sets

Set	Default file glyph	Purpose
NerdFonts		Full Nerd Font icons; the default set.
ANSI	[file]	Readable ASCII labels for files, directories, links, and attributes.
ANSICompact	f	Short text labels such as f for files.
Unicode	□	Simple symbols for ordinary fonts.
Emoji	📄	Emoji and short text labels.

Get-GlyGlyphSet
Set-GlyGlyphSet Unicode
Show-GlyGlyph Unicode

NerdFonts requires a Nerd Font selected in your terminal settings. If icons look wrong, choose Unicode or ANSI. The set stays active for the current session; add your choice to your profile to reuse it.

Show-GlyGlyph previews symbols beside sample names such as file.ps1, src/, and link -> target. Use Show-GlyGlyph -All to compare all registered sets.

Simple Symbol Sets

ANSI, ANSICompact, and Unicode use distinct symbols for directories, junctions, symbolic links, read-only items, and hidden items. All other matches use the set's default file glyph.

Complete Icon Coverage

NerdFonts includes detailed icons for common development files, documents, and media.

Show icon coverage

The set contains icons for:

• Directory, Junction, Symlink, ReadOnly, and Hidden;
• Git, editor-config, dependency, source, test, documentation, build, cache, download, media, and infrastructure directories;
• Git, Docker, README, license, changelog, package, project, settings, and CI files;
• PowerShell, shell, .NET, C/C++, JVM, JavaScript/TypeScript/React, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP, and web files;
• Ada, Assembly, Astro, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Crystal, Dart, D, Elixir, Elm, Erlang, F#, Fortran, GraphQL, Groovy, Haskell, Haxe, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Nim, Nix, OCaml, Perl, Prisma, PureScript, R, Reason, ReScript, Scala, Solidity, Swift, Terraform, V, WebAssembly, Zig, and other file types with dedicated Nerd Font icons;
• JSON, YAML, TOML/INI/ENV, XML, Markdown, text, and log files;
• archives, images, audio, video, office documents, databases, fonts, certificates, and binaries.

Complete name and extension lists are in the selector catalog.

Custom Glyph Set

Copy an existing set under a new name, add a rule, and register your copy. This example labels .log files with [my-log]:

$glyphs = Copy-GlyGlyphSet ANSI MyGlyphs
$glyphs.Rules += @{
    Selector = @{ Extension = '.log' }
    Glyph = '[my-log]'
}

Register-GlyGlyphSet $glyphs
Set-GlyGlyphSet MyGlyphs

Built-in sets cannot be overwritten. Register your copy under a new name. See Selectors to match other file types.