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 @SankeyMATICLatest Release ➶ | Fonts | Patcher | VimDevIcons ➶ | Font Package Downloads ➶ |
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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
- 1 - Install Script
- 2 - Ad Hoc Curl Download
- 3 - Release Archive Download
- 4 - Homebrew Fonts (macOS (OS X))
- 5 - Arch User Repository (AUR) (Arch Linux)
- 6 - Manual
- 7 - Clone Repo
- 8 - Patch Your Own Font
Additional Info
- 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
37
already patched font families- Over
71,000
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
🔍 🔍 You can now search for glyphs easily on NerdFonts.com via the Cheat Sheet
Based off of Seti-UI Icomoon with extra custom glyphs.
An iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). / (repo) / (website)
* To avoid conflicts between icon sets, these were modified in the 'Complete' fonts. To view the original codepoints see the Wiki.
Provides extra Powerline separator glyphs and a column number glyph (CN). / (repo)
Adding new characters into Unicode / (website)
Font-linux is an icon font containing logos of popular linux distributions for inclusion in websites. / (repo)
8 symbols for the "Pomodoro Technique"®. / (repo)
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 oncei_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.
*RFN = Reserved Font Name
- Over
71,000
unique variations/combinations (Power Set) of patched fonts:37
patched font typefaces138
patched font families552
'complete' variations/combinations70,892
possible variations/combinations71,444
total calculated combinations (552 + 70,892)
- Combinations for each font are any combination of 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
Note: only for Linux & macOS (OS X)
- Installs all the patched Fonts (Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size)
./install.sh
- Installs a single Font of your choice
./install.sh <FontName>
./install.sh Hack
./install.sh HeavyData
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
Note: deprecated alternative paths: ~/.fonts
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
Fonts are available for download as packages in the latest release
All fonts are available via Homebrew Fonts on macOS (OS X)
brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-hack-nerd-font
The following fonts are available via AUR packages on Arch Linux:
- Nerd Fonts Complete
- Nerd Fonts DejaVu Complete
- Nerd Fonts Source Code Pro Complete
- Nerd Fonts Git (out of date)
Download the specific patched font of your choice
Cloning of this repository is not required nor the most efficient way to get the fonts, however if you want all 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 VimDevIcons ➶.
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] [-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://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
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)
-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://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome)
--fontawesomeextension
Add Font Awesome Extension Glyphs (http://andrelgava.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 (http://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
./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
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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
See contributing.md
⚠ 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
- ✅ Use:
- 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)
See changelog.md
MIT © Ryan L McIntyre