It appears to be several popular programming fonts with a bunch of extra glyphs added. Does Vim require special font support, because I'm having a hard time figuring out the point of this.
Is this for people who like to put icons into code comments?
Is this for people who like to put icons into code comments?
> Originally created for use with vim-devicons vim plugin to add glyphs (icons) as labels for files based on the filetype extension or entire path
vim-devicons is the other big one that this is supporting, which gives you filetype icons.
Are these things huge big deals? No. Are they nice things that make Vim's UI look a little cleaner and more informative within the confines of a pure character-mode application? Yes.
Not really, that's the terminal emulator's job. If you want to use unicode fuckery for pointless hipster icons, you just need to have the glyphs in any installed font, and the terminal should substitute it when needed, no matter what your configured default font is (unless said font also provides the glyphs).