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Nerd Fonts is a project that patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons). Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular 'iconic fonts' such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.
The following Sankey flow diagram shows the current glyph sets included:
Diagram created using @SankeyMATIC
The best way to get the fonts is to download the specific one you want
Cloning of this repository is not required nor the most efficient way to get the fonts, however if you want all of the fonts and want to clone be sure to shallow clone:
git clone --depth 1
For more high level information see the wiki. If you are looking for the Vim plugin see vim-devicons ➶.
Quick Links
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Important Notices
masterbranch file paths are not considered stable. Please read if you are directly referencing the repository URI- cloning this repository is not recommended unless you are going to be contributing to development
Features
- A FontForge python script to patch any font
- 26 already patched font families
- Over 5,700 unique combinations/variations of patched fonts (more details)
- Over 1,000 glyphs/icons combined (more details)
- Current glyph sets include: Powerline with Extra Symbols, Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, Font Linux, Pomicons
- A Developer/Contributor provided bash script to re-patch all the fonts
Table of Contents
- Glyph sets
- Usage
- Patched Fonts List
- Combinations
- Font Installation
- Font Install Script (Linux & Mac OS X)
- Font Patcher
- Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!
- Unstable file paths on master
- Other Good Fonts to Patch
- Project History
- Contributing
- Changelog
- License
Glyph Sets
Seti-UI + Custom
Based off of Seti-UI Icomoon with extra custom glyphs.
Devicons
An iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). / (repo) / (website)
Font Awesome
Octicons
Powerline Extra Symbols
Provides extra Powerline separator glyphs and a column number glyph (CN). / (repo)
Font Linux
Font-linux is an icon font containing logos of popular linux distributions for inclusion in websites. / (repo)
Pomicons
8 symbols for the "Pomodoro Technique"®. / (repo)
Usage
Option A
Install any of the already provided patched fonts
Option B
Use the provided python command line script to generate a patched font from your own font to get the extra new glyphs
See: Font Patcher for usage
- use this option if you do not want to use one of the fonts provided
Patched Fonts
*RFN = Reserved Font Name
- Variations include:
- extra glyphs that are double or single (monospaced) width
- Font Awesome
- GitHub Octicons
- Font Linux
- Pomicons
- Full Windows Compatibility (WIP)
Combinations
- Over 5,700 unique variations/combinations (Power Set) of patched fonts:
- 102 unpatched font variations (counting otf and ttf)
- 56 combinations (Includes Powerline Extra Symbols)
- Calculated combinations (56 * 102) = 5,712
- Combinations for each font are any combination of (plus no flags option):
- Monospaced extra glyphs
- Windows Compatible
- Font Awesome
- GitHub Octicons
- Font Linux
- Pomicons
Font Installation
Put any font you would like to use into the ~/.local/share/fonts (Linux) or ~/Library/Fonts/(OS X) folder. For example:
Linux
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cd ~/.local/share/fonts && curl -fLo "Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Nerd Font Complete.otf" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/master/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/complete/Droid%20Sans%20Mono%20for%20Powerline%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf
deprecated alternative paths: ~/.fonts
OS X
cd ~/Library/Fonts && curl -fLo "Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Nerd Font Complete.otf" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/master/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/complete/Droid%20Sans%20Mono%20for%20Powerline%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf
Font Install Script
- Linux & Mac OS X
To install all fonts:
- Installs all the patched Fonts (Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size)
./install.sh
To install a single font:
./install.sh <FontName>
./install.sh Hack
./install.sh HeavyData
Patching the font of your own choosing for use with the vim-devicons vim plugin:
- requires: python2, python-fontforge package (version 20141231 or later, see the install instructions)
- alternative install method on OSX:
brew install fontforge - Usage:
./font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT
- Alternative usage: Execute the patcher with the FontForge binary using the script flag:
./fontforge -script font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT
usage: font-patcher [-h] [-v] [-s] [-q] [-w] [--fontawesome] [--fontlinux]
[--octicons] [--pomicons] [--powerline] [--powerlineextra]
[--careful] [-out [OUTPUTDIR]]
font
Patches a given font with programming and web development related glyphs
(mainly for https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons)
positional arguments:
font The path to the font to be patched (e.g.
Inconsolata.otf)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-s, --use-single-width-glyphs
Whether to generate the glyphs as single-width not
double-width (default is double-width)
-q, --quiet, --shutup
Do not generate verbose output
-w, --windows, --limit-font-name-length
Limit the internal font name to a maximum of 31
characters (for safe Windows compatiblity)
--fontawesome Add Font Awesome Glyphs (http://fortawesome.github.io
/Font-Awesome)
--fontlinux Add Font Linux Glyphs (https://github.com/Lukas-W
/font-linux)
--octicons Add Octicons Glyphs (https://octicons.github.com)
--pomicons Add Pomicon Glyphs
(https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons)
--powerline Add Powerline Glyphs
--powerlineextra Add Powerline Glyphs (https://github.com/ryanoasis
/powerline-extra-symbols)
--careful Do not overwrite existing glyphs if detected
-out [OUTPUTDIR], --outputdir [OUTPUTDIR]
The directory to output the patched font file to
Examples
./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf
./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf -s -q
./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf --use-single-width-glyphs --quiet
./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf -w
./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf --windows --quiet
./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf --windows --pomicons --quiet
./font-patcher Inconsolata.otf --fontawesome
./font-patcher Inconsolata.otf --fontawesome --octicons --pomicons
./font-patcher Inconsolata.otf
Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!
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for Contributor or Developer use
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re-patches all fonts in the unpatched directory:
./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh
- can optionally limit to specific font name pattern:
./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh Hermit
Unstable file paths
| Unstable file paths warning |
| Please make sure to reference via the release branch and not the master branch because paths are subject change for each release |
| For example (paths shorted for demonstation purposes): |
| Instead of: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/< font_path >.otf |
| Please use: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/0.8.0/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/< font_path >.otf |
Other Good Fonts to Patch
- a list of additional good fonts to patch that I cannot provide or share due to the license:
- Input Mono
- Coming soon with external hosting :)
- PragmataPro
Project History
Motivation (Original Rationale)
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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. This project began as a part of the vim-devicons repo but soon it became apparent it did not belong tied to the vim plugin. I thought it may benefit others more as a separate project and allow a wider range of uses. This project started before I knew about Fontconfig provided solution, although a patched font still has some benefits over the Fontconfig.
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project and repository previously known as 'nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher' and 'font-nerd-icons'
Contributing
See contributing.md
Changelog
See changelog.md
License
MIT © Ryan L McIntyre