Steps to create a beautiful iTerm2 terminal prompt

Terminal may need to reset (WARNING: this resets terminal preferences) defaults delete com.googlecode.iterm2

1. Install Material Design color scheme - https://github.com/MartinSeeler/iterm2-material-design
2. Install Nerd Fonts

brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-meslo-nerd-font

3. Configure iTerm2 with Nerd Fonts

iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Text -> Font -> Change Font

4. Install Powerlevel9k

echo "POWERLEVEL9K_MODE='nerdfont-complete'" >> ~/.zshrc

git clone https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k.git ~/powerlevel9k
echo 'source  ~/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme' >> ~/.zshrc

POWERLEVEL9K_MODE='nerdfont-complete'
source ~/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme

see my .zshrc file for reference.

References

• https://github.com/haccks/zsh-config
• https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-you-can-style-your-terminal-like-medium-freecodecamp-or-any-way-you-want-f499234d48bc