Nerd Fonts is a project that attempts to patch as many developer targeted and/or used fonts as possible. The patch is to specifically add a high number of additional glyphs from popular 'iconic fonts' such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.
For more high level info see the wiki. Looking for the Vim plugin see vim-devicons ➶.
| Fonts | Patcher | Vim Plugin ➶ |
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Included in this repo:
- A FontForge python script to patch any font
- Over 20 already patched font families
- Over 2,000 unique combinations/variations of patched fonts (more details)
- Over 1,000 glyphs/icons combined (more details)
| Unstable file paths warning: To avoid font file references breaking on releases please read |
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
- Motivation
- Other
- License
Glyph Sets
Seti-UI + Custom
Based off of Seti-UI Icomoon with additional custom glyphs added from various sources.
Devicons
An iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). / (repo) / (website)
Font Awesome
Octicons
Pomicons
8 symbols for the "Pomodoro Technique"®. / (repo)
Powerline Extra Symbols
Provides additional Powerline separator glyphs and a column number glyph (CN). / (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 additional new glyphs
See: Font Patcher for usage
- use this option if you do not want to use one of the fonts provided
Patched Fonts
- Variations include:
- extra glyphs that are double or single (monospaced) width
- Font Awesome
- GitHub Octicons
- Pomicons
- Full Windows Compatibility (WIP)
Combinations
- Over 2,000 unique variations/combinations (Power Set) of patched fonts:
- 57 font variations (just counting otf and ttf)
- 36 combinations (Powerline Extra included by default currently)
- Calculated combinations (36 * 57) = 2,052
- Combinations for each font are any combination of (plus no flags option):
- Monospaced extra glyphs
- Windows Compatible
- Font Awesome
- GitHub Octicons
- Pomicons
Glyphs Combined
Diagram created using @SankeyMATIC
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.otfdeprecated alternate 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.otfFont Install Script
Installs all of the patched Fonts (Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size)
- Linux & Mac OS X
./install.shExamples
./install.sh
All fonts installed to /home/ryan/.fonts
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)
- can alternately be installed on OSX via:
brew install fontforge - Usage:
./font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT
- Alternate usage: Alternately the patcher can be run through the FontForge binary using the script flag:
./fontforge -script font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT
usage: font-patcher [-h] [-s] [-q] [-w] [--fontawesome] [--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
-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/)
--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!
- re-patches all fonts in the unpatched directory
- mostly for Contributor/Dev use only
- can optionally limit to specific font pattern (second example)
./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh
./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 to being improved/changed per 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/0.6.0/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
Motivation (Original Rationale)
- 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
Other
- project/repo previously known as 'nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher', 'font-nerd-icons'
License
see LICENSE