nerd-fonts/patched-fonts/Overpass/font-info.md

# Overpass
**Overpass** — _an open source web font family_

+Sponsored by [Red Hat](http://www.redhat.com), Inspired by [Highway Gothic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic), Designed by [Delve Fonts](http://www.delvefonts.com)

        

For more information, please visit  [overpassfont.org](http://www.overpassfont.org  "overpassfont.org")



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## Contributors

#### Designers
* Delve Withrington
* Dave Bailey
* Thomas Jockin

#### Reviewers
* Jakub Steiner
* Ben Dubrovsky
* Andy Fitzsimon


## License

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.,

This Font Software is dual licensed under the SIL Open Font License and the GNU Lesser General Public License,
LGPL 2.1 : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html
OFL  1.1  : http://scripts.sil.org/OFL


## Which font?

### TL;DR

* Pick your font family and then select from the `'complete'` directory.
  * If you are on Windows pick a font with the `'Windows Compatible'` suffix.
    * This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
  * If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the `'Mono'` suffix.
  * If you want to have bigger icons (usually around 1.5 normal letters wide) pick a font without `'Mono'` suffix. Most terminals support this, but ymmv.

### Ligatures

Ligatures are generally preserved in the patched fonts.
Nerd Fonts `v2.0.0` had no ligatures in the `Nerd Font Mono` fonts, this has been dropped with `v2.1.0`.
If you have a ligature-aware terminal and don't want ligatures you can (usually) disable them in the terminal settings.

### Explanation

Once you narrow down your font choice of family (`Droid Sans`, `Inconsolata`, etc) and style (`bold`, `italic`, etc) you have 2 main choices:

#### `Option 1: Download already patched font`

 * For a stable version download a font package from the [release page](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases)
 * Or download the development version from the `complete` folder here

#### `Option 2: Patch your own font`

 * patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
   * This is the option you want if the font you use is _not_ already included or you want maximum control of what's included
   * This contains a list of _all permutations_ of the various glyphs. E.g. You want the font with only [Octicons][octicons] or you want the font with just [Font Awesome][font-awesome] and [Devicons][vorillaz-devicons].


For more information see: [The FAQ](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#which-font)


[vim-devicons]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons
[vorillaz-devicons]:https://vorillaz.github.io/devicons/
[font-awesome]:https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
[octicons]:https://github.com/primer/octicons
[gabrielelana-pomicons]:https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons
[Seti-UI]:https://atom.io/themes/seti-ui
[ryanoasis-powerline-extra-symbols]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/powerline-extra-symbols
[SIL-RFN]:http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL_web_fonts_and_RFNs#14cbfd4a