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Ubuntu Font Family
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The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts in
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development during 2010--2011. And with further expansion work and
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bug fixing during 2015. The development is being funded by
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Canonical Ltd on behalf the wider Free Software community and the
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Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is
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being undertaken by Dalton Maag.
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Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used
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to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and
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you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve.
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http://font.ubuntu.com/
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## Why `Fura` and not `Fira`?
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What's in a name? The reason for the name change is to comply with the SIL Open Font License (OFL), in partcular the [Reserved Font Name mechanism][SIL-RFN]
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Some fonts have parts of their name "reserved" per the [Reserved Font Name mechanism][SIL-RFN]:
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> No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
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> Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
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> Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
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> presented to the users.
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- The main goals seem to be to: `Avoid collisions`, `Protect authors`, `Minimize support`, and `Encourage derivatives`
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See the [Reserved Font Name section][SIL-RFN] for additional information
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## Which font?
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### TL;DR
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* Pick your font family and then select from the `'complete'` directory.
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* If you are on Windows pick a font with the `'Windows Compatible'` suffix.
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* This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
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* If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the `'Mono'` suffix.
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* 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:
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#### `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.
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#### `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
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* 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
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[Seti-UI]:https://atom.io/themes/seti-ui
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[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
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