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I'm surprised how many people see screenshots of my terminal settings and want something similar. I have five simple steps for anyone who wants to upgrade their default macOS terminal settings. In just a couple of minutes, you can have a clean setup with a useful git prompt and pleasant colors.

1. Install a font with Powerline support. I use Fira Code (github.com/tonsky/FiraC...), which works well as a terminal font, but is also a great programming font if you like ligatures in your code.

2. The default terminal color schemes are fine, but I prefer something a bit more subtle. Download the Nord.terminal theme from github.com/nordtheme/te... and import it into Terminal. Click the "Default" button to set it as the default for all new windows.

3. Edit the Nord theme to set Fira Code as the default. Hit the Change button and set it the typeface, style, size, character spacing and line spacing to the settings in the screenshot.

5. [Optional] Lastly (since I'm making opinionated recommendations already), install tldr, the missing tool that improves on man by providing actually useful examples of the commands you need. tldr.sh