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# Overpass
**Overpass** — _an open source web font family_
+Sponsored by [Red Hat](http://www.redhat.com), Inspired by [Highway Gothic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic), Designed by [Delve Fonts](http://www.delvefonts.com)
For more information, please visit [overpassfont.org](http://www.overpassfont.org "overpassfont.org")
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## Contributors
#### Designers
* Delve Withrington
* Dave Bailey
* Thomas Jockin
#### Reviewers
* Jakub Steiner
* Ben Dubrovsky
* Andy Fitzsimon
## License
Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.,
This Font Software is dual licensed under the SIL Open Font License and the GNU Lesser General Public License,
LGPL 2.1 : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html
OFL 1.1 : http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
## Which font?
### TL;DR
* Pick your font family and then select from the `'complete'` directory.
* If you are on Windows pick a font with the `'Windows Compatible'` suffix.
* This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
* If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the `'Mono'` suffix.
* This denotes that the Nerd Font glyphs will be monospaced not necessarily that the entire font will be monospaced
### Explanation
Once you narrow down your font choice of family (`Droid Sans`, `Inconsolata`, etc) and style (`bold`, `italic`, etc) you have 2 main choices:
#### `Option 1: Download already patched font`
* download an already patched font from the `complete` folder
* 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.
#### `Option 2: Patch your own font`
* patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
* This is the option you want if the font you use is _not_ already included or you want maximum control of what's included
* 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.
For more information see: [The FAQ](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#which-font)
[vim-devicons]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons
[vorillaz-devicons]:https://vorillaz.github.io/devicons/
[font-awesome]:https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
[octicons]:https://github.com/primer/octicons
[gabrielelana-pomicons]:https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons
[Seti-UI]:https://atom.io/themes/seti-ui
[ryanoasis-powerline-extra-symbols]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/powerline-extra-symbols
[SIL-RFN]:http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL_web_fonts_and_RFNs#14cbfd4a
## Variations (Combinations)
> The combinations and total number of combinations are provided here for reference if you want to create your own variation of a patched Nerd Font.
### Why aren't all variations included ?
Combinations are no longer included by default because of the large inflation in size it caused the Repository _and_ the amount of time it takes to rebuild all of the combinations. This issue would exponentially get worse as the numbers of Fonts and Glyph Sets provided increase.