nerd-fonts/readme.md

nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher v0.2.1

• A python fontforge command line script to patch any font
• patched-fonts folder contains pre-patched fonts provided for use with vim-webdevicons (see list below)

... and more ...

• Particularly created for use with vim-webdevicons vim plugin to add glyphs (icons) as labels for files based on the filetype extension or entire path

Usage

Option A

Typical install of any of the provided patched fonts

or

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

Currently Included Patched Fonts (double width glyphs)	em size
Anonymice Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048
Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048
Literation Mono Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048
ProggyCleanTT Plus Nerd File Types	2048
Sauce Code Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000
Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000
Ubuntu Mono Plus Nerd File Types	1000

Currently Included Absolute Mono Patched Fonts (single width glyphs)	em size
Anonymice Powerline Plus Nerd File Types Mono	2048
Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types Mono	2048
Literation Mono Powerline Plus Nerd File Types Mono	2048
ProggyCleanTT Plus Nerd File Types Mono	2048
Sauce Code Powerline Plus Nerd File Types Mono	1000
Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline Plus Nerd File Types Mono	1000
Ubuntu Mono Plus Nerd File Types Mono	1000

Font Install Script (Linux and Mac OS X)

> ./install.sh

Examples

./install.sh
All fonts installed to /home/ryan/.fonts

Font Patcher

Patching the font of your own choosing for use with the vim-webdevicons vim plugin:

• requires: python2, python-fontforge package

• usage:

  ./font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT

usage: font-patcher [-h] [-s] [-q] font

Patches a given font with programming and web development related glyphs
(mainly for vim-webdevicons)

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

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 Inconsolata.otf

License

see LICENSE