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## Which font?
### TL;DR
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* 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.
* This denotes that the Nerd Font glyphs will be monospaced not necessarily that the entire font will be monospaced
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### Explanation
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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`
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* download an already patched font from the `complete` folder
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* This is most likely the one you want. It includes **all** of the glyphs from all of the glyph sets. Only caution here is that some fonts have glyphs in the _same_ code point so to include everything some had to be moved to alternate code points.
#### `Option 2: Patch your own font`
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* patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
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* 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]. The goal is to provide every combination possible in this folder.
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For more information see: [The FAQ ](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#which-font )
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[vim-devicons]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons
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[vorillaz-devicons]:https://vorillaz.github.io/devicons/
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[font-awesome]:https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
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[octicons]:https://github.com/primer/octicons
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[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
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[SIL-RFN]:http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL_web_fonts_and_RFNs#14cbfd4a
