# Powerline

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

Repository: https://github.com/powerline/powerline
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/powerline
Homepage: https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: python, statusline, prompt, vim, bash, zsh, fish, tmux, ipython, powerline
Last push: 2026-03-11T01:18:21+00:00
Link (homepage): https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 55/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 71, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5195, "days_push": 176, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 14800, forks 999 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:07.716948+00:00)

## What it is
Powerline is a statusline plugin for Vim, tmux, shell prompts, and window managers, and this repository provides pre-patched fonts containing the special glyphs Powerline requires. It is a companion font collection rather than the plugin itself.

## Use cases
- install patched fonts so powerline symbols render in my terminal
- fix missing glyphs in vim statusline
- make tmux statusline show powerline arrows
- get monospace fonts with powerline glyphs for shell prompt
- install powerline fonts on ubuntu or fedora

## When to choose
- you use the Powerline statusline plugin and see broken characters in your prompt or statusline
- you want a one-script install of many popular patched monospace fonts

## When to avoid
- you need Nerd Font icon sets beyond the basic Powerline glyphs
- you do not use Powerline or a compatible statusline plugin
- you need a maintained license-clear distribution - the repo itself has no license file

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, terminal-ui, theme
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: fonts, statusline, vim, tmux, shell-prompt, patched-fonts, nerd-fonts, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- powerline/powerline (main) score 55
- powerline/fonts (plugin) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:07.716948+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:55:53.512600+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/powerline/powerline (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:07.716948+00:00, sha 0099250fcb51)
  - homepage: https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:17.069605+00:00, sha cc8b3d75fe90)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.