GitHub - arronei/nerd-fonts: :abcd: Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher: 39 patched fonts (87k+ variations). Includes popular glyph collections such as Font Awesome & fonts such as Hack

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}

Quick Navigation

Latest Release ➶	Fonts	Patcher	VimDevIcons ➶	Font Package Downloads ➶

Important Notices

master branch file paths are not considered stable. Verify your repository URI references
cloning this repository is not recommended unless you are going to be contributing to development

TL;DR

Nerd Fonts takes popular programming fonts and adds a bunch of Glyphs. There is also a font patcher available if your desired font isn't already patched. For more high level information see the wiki. If you are looking for the Vim plugin see VimDevIcons ➶.

Various Download Options for Fonts

If you...

Option 1. want to quickly grab an individual font download from the patched-fonts/ directory
Option 2. want to download a font family package of variations (bold, italic, etc.) see download an archive
Option 3. want to automate installing or use in scripts see the Install Script
Option 4. are on macOS and want to use Homebrew see Homebrew Fonts
Option 5. want complete control then see cloning the repo
Option 6. want to use curl command or use in scripts see Ad Hoc Curl Download
Option 7. are on Arch Linux and want to use AUR packages see Unofficial Arch User Repositories
Option 8. want to patch your own font see the Font Patcher

Features

A FontForge Python script to patch any font
- Includes an option to create Monospaced (fixed-pitch, fixed-width) or double-width (non-monospaced) glyphs
- For more details see the Font Patcher section
39 already patched font families
Over 87,000 unique combinations/variations of patched fonts (more details)
Over 1,300 glyphs/icons combined (more details)
- Current glyph sets include: Powerline with Extra Symbols, Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, Font Linux, Pomicons
Monospaced (fixed-pitch, fixed-width) or double-width (non-monospaced) glyphs version of each font
- This refers to the Nerd Font glyphs themselves not necessarily the Font as a whole
A Developer/Contributor provided bash script to re-patch all the fonts

Glyph Sets

🔍 🔍 You can now search for glyphs easily on NerdFonts.com via the Cheat Sheet

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

The iconic font and CSS toolkit. / (repo) / (website)

Font Awesome Extension

Simple Font Awesome Extension. / (repo) / (website)

Octicons

GitHub's icons. / (repo) / (website)

Nerd Font Complete Codepoints:*

_{* To avoid conflicts between icon sets, these were modified in the 'Complete' fonts. To view the original codepoints see the Wiki.}

Powerline Extra Symbols

Provides extra Powerline separator glyphs and a column number glyph (CN). / (repo)

IEC Power Symbols

Adding new characters into Unicode / (website)

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)

Icon names in shell

Download provided .sh files from bin/scripts/lib/ directory somewhere, recommended locations are ~/.local/share/fonts/ or ~/bin/.

i_all.sh - helper to load all files you've downloaded at once
i_dev.sh - Devicons (198 icons, 8 does not have an established name)
i_fa.sh - Font Awesome (675 icons, 111 aliases)
i_fae.sh - Font Awesome Extension (170 icons)
i_iec.sh - IEC Power Symbols (5 icons)
i_linux.sh - Font Linux (20 icons)
i_oct.sh - Octicons (172 icons)
i_ple.sh - Powerline Extra Symbols (37 icons, 2 aliases, 16 does not have an established name)
i_pom.sh - Pomicons (11 icons)
i_seti.sh - Seti-UI + Custom (50 icons, 2 aliases, 5 does not have an established name)

Then source the required file(s) and output $i_* variables to see icons:

source ~/.local/share/fonts/i_oct.sh
echo $i_oct_heart
# Output:
# ♥

NOTE: You have to use one of the Nerd Fonts to see correct icons for some icon sets (Devicons, Font Awesome Extension, Font Linux), but other sets should work with their standard fonts too.

Patched Fonts

Font Name	Font Name and Repository	*RFN	EM Size	Status
3270 Nerd Font	3270	NO	1000
Anonymice Nerd Font	Anonymous Pro	NO	2048
Aurulent Sans Mono Nerd Font		NO	1000
Arimo	Arimo	NO	2048
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Nerd Font		NO	2048
Code New Roman Nerd Font		NO	2048
Cousine Nerd Font	Cousine	NO	1000
DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd Font		NO	2048
Droid Sans Mono Nerd Font		NO	2048
Fantasque Sans Nerd Font	Fantasque Sans	NO	2048
Fura Code Nerd Font	Fira	YES	1000
Fura Mono Nerd Font	Fira	YES	1000
Gohu Nerd Font	Gohu	NO	1000
Hasklug Nerd Font	Hasklig	YES	1000
Heavy Data Mono Nerd Font		NO	2048
Hermut Nerd Font		NO	1000
Inconsolata Nerd Font		NO	1000
Inconsolata Go Nerd Font		NO	1000
Inconsolata LGC Nerd Font		NO	1000
Iosevka Nerd Font	Iosevka	YES	1000	#83
Knack Nerd Font	Hack	YES	2048
Lekton Nerd Font		NO	1000
Literation Mono Nerd Font	Liberation	YES	2048
Meslo Nerd Font		NO	2048
Monofur Nerd Font		NO	2400
Monoid Nerd Font		NO	1536
Mononoki Nerd Font	Mononoki	NO	1024
M+ (MPlus) Nerd Font		NO	1000
ProFont (Windows tweaked) Nerd Font		NO	1200
ProFont (x11) Nerd Font		NO	1000	[FAILING]
ProggyClean Nerd Font		NO	2048	[FAILING]
Roboto Mono		NO	2048	[FAILING]
Sauce Code Nerd Font	Source	YES	1000
Shure Tech Mono Nerd Font	Share Tech Mono	YES	1000
Space Mono Nerd Font	Space Mono	NO	1000
Terminess Nerd Font	Terminus Font	YES	1000
Ubuntu Nerd Font		NO	1000
Ubuntu Mono Nerd Font		NO	1000

_{*RFN = Reserved Font Name}

Combinations

Over 87,000 unique variations/combinations (Power Set) of patched fonts:
- 39 patched font typefaces
- 169 patched font families
- 676 'complete' variations/combinations
- 86,702 possible variations/combinations
- 87,378 total calculated combinations (676 + 86,702)
Combinations for each font are any combination of Variations

Variations

no flags given (defaults to only Seti-UI + Custom and Devicons)
double (variable/proportional) or single (fixed/monospaced) width glyphs
Font Awesome
Font Awesome Extension
GitHub Octicons
Font Linux
Powerline Extra Symbols
IEC Power Symbols
Pomicons
Windows Compatibility

Font Installation

`Option 1: Download and Install Manually`

Best option for quickly getting a specific individual font.

Download the specific patched font of your choice

`Option 2: Release Archive Download`

Best option if you want an archive or complete font family of variations (Bold, Italic, etc.).

Fonts are available for download as packages in the latest release

`Option 3: Install Script`

Best option if you want to automate installing or for use in scripts.

Note: Only for Linux & macOS (OS X) Note: Requires cloning the repo as of now

All fonts:

Installs all the patched Fonts (Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size)

./install.sh

Single font:

Installs a single Font of your choice

./install.sh <FontName>
./install.sh Hack
./install.sh HeavyData

`Option 4: Homebrew Fonts`

Best option if on macOS and want to use Homebrew.

All fonts are available via Homebrew Fonts on macOS (OS X)

brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-hack-nerd-font

`Option 5: Clone the Repo`

Best option for full control, all or most of the fonts, or contributing to development.

Cloning of this repository is not required nor efficient if you are simply only interested in a limited set of fonts.

However if you do want to clone the repo be sure to shallow clone:

git clone --depth 1

`Option 6: Ad Hoc Curl Download`

Option if you want to use the curl command or for use in scripts.

Linux

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cd ~/.local/share/fonts && curl -fLo "Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Nerd Font Complete.otf" https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/raw/master/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/complete/Droid%20Sans%20Mono%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf

Note: deprecated alternative paths: ~/.fonts

macOS (OS X)

cd ~/Library/Fonts && curl -fLo "Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Nerd Font Complete.otf" https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/raw/master/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/complete/Droid%20Sans%20Mono%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf

`Option 7: Unofficial Arch User Repository (AUR)`

Option for Arch Linux and wanting to use AUR packages.

The following fonts are available via AUR packages on Arch Linux:

`Option 8: Patch Your Own Font`

The option for patching your own font or fully customizing the patched font.

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
you will still need to copy the generated font to the correct font directory on your system

Patching the font of your own choosing for use with the VimDevIcons ➶:

requires: Python 2 (or Python 3), 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] [-l] [-q] [-w] [-c] [--fontawesome]
                    [--fontawesomeextension] [--fontlinux] [--octicons]
                    [--powersymbols] [--pomicons] [--powerline]
                    [--powerlineextra] [--custom [CUSTOM]]
                    [--postprocess [POSTPROCESS]]
                    [--progressbars | --no-progressbars] [--careful]
                    [-ext [EXTENSION]] [-out [OUTPUTDIR]]
                    font

Nerd Fonts Font Patcher: patches a given font with programming and development related glyphs

* Website: https://www.nerdfonts.com
* Version: 1.2.0
* Development Website: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
* Changelog: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/changelog.md

positional arguments:
  font                  The path to the font to patch (e.g., Inconsolata.otf)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -s, --mono, --use-single-width-glyphs
                        Whether to generate the glyphs as single-width not double-width (default is double-width)
  -l, --adjust-line-height
                        Whether to adjust line heights (attempt to center powerline separators more evenly)
  -q, --quiet, --shutup
                        Do not generate verbose output
  -w, --windows         Limit the internal font name to 31 characters (for Windows compatibility)
  -c, --complete        Add all available Glyphs
  --fontawesome         Add Font Awesome Glyphs (http://fontawesome.io/)
  --fontawesomeextension
                        Add Font Awesome Extension Glyphs (https://andrelzgava.github.io/font-awesome-extension/)
  --fontlinux           Add Font Linux Glyphs (https://github.com/Lukas-W/font-linux)
  --octicons            Add Octicons Glyphs (https://octicons.github.com)
  --powersymbols        Add IEC Power Symbols (https://unicodepowersymbol.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)
  --custom [CUSTOM]     Specify a custom symbol font. All new glyphs will be copied, with no scaling applied.
  --postprocess [POSTPROCESS]
                        Specify a Script for Post Processing
  --progressbars        Show percentage completion progress bars per Glyph Set
  --no-progressbars     Don't show percentage completion progress bars per Glyph Set
  --careful             Do not overwrite existing glyphs if detected
  -ext [EXTENSION], --extension [EXTENSION]
                        Change font file type to create (e.g., ttf, otf)
  -out [OUTPUTDIR], --outputdir [OUTPUTDIR]
                        The directory to output the patched font file to

Examples

./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf -s -q
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf --use-single-width-glyphs --quiet
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf -w
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf --windows --quiet
./font-patcher 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!

for Contributor or Developer use
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

Contributing

See contributing.md

Unstable File Paths

⚠️ Warning: File paths may change based on releases (especially major version bumps)

Reference the release branch and not the ~~master~~ branch because paths are subject change for each release

For example:
- ✅ Use: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/0.9.0/patched-fonts/Hermit/Medium/complete/Hurmit%20Medium%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf
- ❌ Instead of: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/Hermit/Medium/complete/Hurmit%20Medium%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.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 (license restriction)
- Possibly coming with external hosting :)
PragmataPro (not free)
Consolas (proprietary)

Project Motivation

See Wiki: Project Purpose

Changelog

See changelog.md

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 616 Commits
.github		.github
bin/scripts		bin/scripts
css		css
images		images
patched-fonts		patched-fonts
src		src
.all-contributorsrc		.all-contributorsrc
.gitignore		.gitignore
.travis.yml		.travis.yml
10-nerd-font-symbols.conf		10-nerd-font-symbols.conf
CONTRIBUTORS.md		CONTRIBUTORS.md
LICENSE		LICENSE
changelog.md		changelog.md
code_of_conduct.md		code_of_conduct.md
contributing.md		contributing.md
font-patcher		font-patcher
install.sh		install.sh
package.json		package.json
readme.md		readme.md
readme_cn.md		readme_cn.md
readme_ru.md		readme_ru.md
readme_tw.md		readme_tw.md

License

arronei/nerd-fonts

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Important Notices

Table of Contents

TL;DR

Various Download Options for Fonts

Features

Glyph Sets

Seti-UI + Custom

Nerd Font Complete Codepoints:*

Icon names in shell

Patched Fonts

Combinations

Variations

Font Installation

Option 1: Download and Install Manually

Option 2: Release Archive Download

Option 3: Install Script

All fonts:

Single font:

Option 4: Homebrew Fonts

Option 5: Clone the Repo

Option 6: Ad Hoc Curl Download

Linux

macOS (OS X)

Option 7: Unofficial Arch User Repository (AUR)

Option 8: Patch Your Own Font

Examples

Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!

Contributing

Unstable File Paths

Other Good Fonts to Patch

Project Motivation

Changelog

License

About

Resources

License

Code of conduct

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Forks

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`Option 1: Download and Install Manually`

`Option 2: Release Archive Download`

`Option 3: Install Script`

`Option 4: Homebrew Fonts`

`Option 5: Clone the Repo`

`Option 6: Ad Hoc Curl Download`

`Option 7: Unofficial Arch User Repository (AUR)`

`Option 8: Patch Your Own Font`