# Any way to use custom unicode inside of Julia terminal / VS Code?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [September 23, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594 "2025-09-23T11:20:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594/1 "2025-09-23T11:20:58Z")
For example the following:
> **[Icon Cheatsheet | Mana](https://mana.andrewgioia.com/cheatsheet.html)**
Kind regards
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### Author:  [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594/2 "2025-09-23T14:44:20Z")
It depends what you mean by “use”. Do you want to write code with the characters, display them in a document, draw them in a plot, or show them in the terminal?
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594/3 "2025-09-23T17:25:05Z")
I would love to write code, use them in imagery and show them in the terminal - displaying in document I will do using Typst I think
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### Author:  [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594/4 "2025-09-23T18:45:17Z")
Since Mana is not monospaced, and doesn’t have the basic characters you need (ie ASCII), it will be difficult to write code in VS-Code, which I think only lets you select one font. The terminal can output the glyphs if you select the font:
but it’s not something that’s very usable.🙂
You could investigate using Pluto or BonitoBook - being HTML-based, they might allow you to display output in different fonts. I haven’t tried it though.
Of course you can probably display them with any package that provides a drawing canvas and lets you choose fonts, such as plotting packages.
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594/5 "2025-09-23T23:56:06Z")
Would I be able to specify this font while printing only?
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-way-to-use-custom-unicode-inside-of-julia-terminal-vs-code/132594/6 "2025-09-24T00:39:50Z")
In an environment like Jupyter or Pluto that lets you do HTML output, sure. Not in terminal output, which AFAIK doesn’t let you control fonts.