diff --git a/home/user.nix b/home/user.nix
index b158c5b..41b6009 100644
--- a/home/user.nix
+++ b/home/user.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ in
   #   };
   # };
 
+  # TODO: fonts? right now I do this:
+  # curl -o ~/Downloads/iosevkalyte.tar.zstd https://files.lyte.dev/iosevkalyte/rel/iosevkalyteterm-16.4.0.tar.zstd
+  # tar --zstd -xvf ~/Downloads/iosevka.tar.zstd
+  # mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
+  # cp -r iosevkalyteterm/ttf/* ~/.local/share/fonts
+  # TODO: I bet I can declare an iosevka font build, too, instead
+  # TODO: wallpaper?
+
   home = {
     username = lib.mkDefault "daniel";
     homeDirectory = lib.mkDefault "/home/daniel/.home";
diff --git a/modules/desktop-usage.nix b/modules/desktop-usage.nix
index 3cd49a9..1830223 100644
--- a/modules/desktop-usage.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop-usage.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,135 @@
-{ ... }: {
+{ pkgs, ... }: {
   # TODO: add a DE and include either plasma or gnome as a fallback?
   imports = [
     ./sway.nix
     ./user-installed-applications.nix
   ];
 
+  fonts.packages = with pkgs; [
+    (nerdfonts.override { fonts = [ "NerdFontsSymbolsOnly" ]; })
+    (iosevka.override {
+      set = "lyteterm";
+      privateBuildPlan = ''
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm]
+        family = "IosevkaLyteTerm"
+        spacing = "fontconfig-mono"
+        serifs = "sans"
+        export-glyph-names = true
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.ligations]
+        inherits = "dlig"
+        disables = [ "exeqeqeq", "exeqeq", "exeqeq-dl", "exeq", "ineq", "connected-underscore", "connected-tilde-as-wave" ]
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.weights.regular]
+        shape = 400
+        menu  = 400
+        css   = 400
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.weights.book]
+        shape = 450
+        menu  = 450
+        css   = 450
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.weights.bold]
+        shape = 700
+        menu  = 700
+        css   = 700
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.weights.black]
+        shape = 900
+        menu  = 900
+        css   = 900
+
+        # [[buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.compatibility-ligatures]]
+        # unicode = 57600 # 0xE100
+        # featureTag = 'calt'
+        # kequence = '<*>'
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.variants]
+        inherits = "ss01"
+
+        [buildPlans.iosevka-lyteterm.variants.design]
+        capital-a = 'curly-serifless'
+        capital-b = 'standard-interrupted-serifless'
+        capital-c = 'unilateral-inward-serifed'
+        capital-d = 'standard-serifless'
+        capital-g = 'toothless-rounded-inward-serifed-hooked'
+        capital-i = 'serifed'
+        capital-j = 'serifed'
+        capital-k = 'curly-serifless'
+        capital-l = 'motion-serifed'
+        capital-m = 'hanging-serifless'
+        capital-n = 'asymmetric-serifless'
+        capital-p = 'open-serifless'
+        capital-q = 'crossing'
+        capital-r = 'standing-open'
+        capital-s = 'unilateral-inward-serifed'
+        capital-t = 'motion-serifed'
+        capital-u = 'toothless-corner'
+        capital-v = 'curly'
+        capital-w = 'curly'
+        capital-x = 'curly-serifless'
+        capital-y = 'curly-base-serifed'
+        capital-z = 'curly-top-serifed-with-crossbar'
+        a = 'double-storey-toothless-corner'
+        b = 'toothless-corner'
+        c = 'unilateral-inward-serifed'
+        d = 'toothless-corner-serifless'
+        e = 'flat-crossbar'
+        f = 'tailed'
+        g = 'double-storey-open'
+        # g = 'single-storey-earless-corner-flat-hook'
+        h = 'straight'
+        i = 'tailed-serifed'
+        j = 'serifed'
+        k = 'curly-serifless'
+        l = 'tailed-serifed'
+        m = 'earless-corner-double-arch'
+        n = 'earless-corner-straight'
+        p = 'earless-corner'
+        q = 'earless-corner'
+        r = 'earless-corner'
+        s = 'unilateral-inward-serifed'
+        t = 'flat-hook'
+        u = 'toothless-corner'
+        v = 'curly'
+        w = 'curly'
+        x = 'curly-serifless'
+        y = 'curly-turn'
+        z = 'curly-top-serifed-with-crossbar'
+        # cyrl-capital-ze = 'unilateral-inward-serifed'
+        zero = 'slashed-split'
+        one = 'base'
+        two = 'curly-neck'
+        three = 'two-arcs'
+        four = 'semi-open-non-crossing'
+        five = 'vertical-upper-left-bar'
+        six = 'straight-bar'
+        seven = 'curly-crossbar-serifed'
+        eight = 'two-circles'
+        nine = 'straight-bar'
+        tilde = 'low'
+        asterisk = 'penta-low'
+        underscore = 'above-baseline'
+        pilcrow = 'low'
+        caret = 'low'
+        paren = 'flat-arc'
+        brace = 'curly-flat-boundary'
+        number-sign = 'upright-open'
+        ampersand = 'upper-open'
+        at = 'short'
+        dollar = 'interrupted'
+        cent = 'open'
+        percent = 'rings-segmented-slash'
+        bar = 'force-upright'
+        ascii-single-quote = 'raised-comma'
+        ascii-grave = 'straight'
+        question = 'smooth'
+        punctuation-dot = 'round'
+      '';
+    })
+  ];
+
   hardware = {
     opengl = {
       enable = true;
diff --git a/nixos/common.nix b/nixos/common.nix
index bd83146..70c4bbc 100644
--- a/nixos/common.nix
+++ b/nixos/common.nix
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ in
   };
 
   nix = {
-    trustedUsers = [ "root" "daniel" ];
     settings = {
+      trusted-users = [ "root" "daniel" ];
       experimental-features = lib.mkDefault [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
       substituters = [
         "https://nix.h.lyte.dev"
diff --git a/nixos/thinker.nix b/nixos/thinker.nix
index ccc68e8..9d8fad7 100644
--- a/nixos/thinker.nix
+++ b/nixos/thinker.nix
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
   # need to measure percentage lost per day, but I think it's around 10%/day
   # it looks like I may have had hibernation working -- see ../old/third.nix
 
-  # TODO: fonts? right now, I'm just installing to ~/.local/share/fonts
-
   # hardware
   boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
   boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;