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Fonts	Patcher

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• 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)
• Originally created for use with vim-devicons ➶ vim plugin

Table of Contents

• font nerd icons
  • Glyph sets
  • Usage
  • Patched Fonts List
  • Combinations
  • 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
  • Rationale
  • Other
  • License

Glyph Sets

Seti-UI + Custom

• Seti-UI / icomoon plus misc custom glyphs

devicons

• devicons from vorillaz-devicons

font-awesome

• font-awesome

octicons

• octicons

Pomicons

• Pomicons from gabrielelana-pomicons

powerline-extra-symbols

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

Font Name	Reserved Font Name	EM Size	Status
3270 Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Anonymice Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	Anonymous Pro	2048	[TEST]
Aurulent Sans Mono Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Plus Nerd File Types		2048	[TEST]
DejaVu Sans Mono Plus Nerd File Types		2048	[TEST]
Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		2048	[TEST]
Fira Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Heavy Data Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		2048	[TEST]
Hermut Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Inconsolata for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Knack Plus Nerd File Types	Hack	2048	[TEST]
Lekton for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Literation Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	Liberation	2048	[TEST]
Meslo for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		2048	[TEST]
Monofur for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		2400	[TEST]
M+ (MPlus) for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
ProFont (Windows tweaked) for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1200	[TEST]
ProFont (x11) for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[FAIL]
ProggyCleanTT Plus Nerd File Types		2048
Sauce Code Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	Source	1000	[TEST]
Terminess for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	Terminus Font	1000	FAIL
Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]
Ubuntu Mono Plus Nerd File Types		1000	[TEST]

• 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 Install Script

• Linux & Mac OS X

  ./install.sh

Examples

./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

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