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**Nerd Fonts** is a project that attempts to patch as many developer targeted and/or used fonts as possible. The patch is to specifically add a high number of additional glyphs from popular 'iconic fonts' such as [Font Awesome][font-awesome], [Devicons][vorillaz-devicons], [Octicons][octicons], and others.
For more high level info see the [wiki][wiki]. Looking for the Vim plugin see [vim-devicons ➶][vim-devicons].
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/sankey-glyphs-combined-diagram.png)
<sub>_Diagram created using [@SankeyMATIC](http://sankeymatic.com/)_</sub>
## Quick Links
***
| **[Fonts](#patched-fonts)** | **[Patcher](#font-patcher)** | **[Vim Plugin ➶][vim-devicons]** |
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| [![fonts-logo-small](images/nerd-fonts-character-logo-md.png)](#patched-fonts) | [![patcher-logo-small](images/nerd-fonts-patcher-logo-md.png)](#font-patcher) | [![vim-devicons-logo-small][img-visual-toc-vim-devicons]][vim-devicons] |
***
## Features
* A [FontForge python script](#font-patcher) to patch any font
* Over **20** already [patched font families](#patched-fonts)
* Over **2,000** unique combinations/variations of patched fonts [(more details)](#combinations)
* Over **1,000** glyphs/icons combined [(more details)](#combinations)
* A Developer/Contributor provided [bash script](#gotta-patch-em-all) to re-patch all the fonts
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## Table of Contents
- [Glyph sets](#glyph-sets)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Patched Fonts List](#patched-fonts)
- [Combinations](#combinations)
- [Font Installation](#font-installation)
- [Font Install Script (Linux & Mac OS X)](#font-install-script)
- [Font Patcher](#font-patcher)
- [Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!](#gotta-patch-em-all)
- [Unstable file paths on master](#unstable-file-paths)
- [Other Good Fonts to Patch](#other-good-fonts-to-patch)
- [Motivation](#motivation-original-rationale)
- [Other](#other)
- [License](#license)
## Glyph Sets
### Seti-UI + Custom
> Based off of [Seti-UI] Icomoon with additional custom glyphs added from various sources.
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-1.png)
### [Devicons][vorillaz-devicons]
> An iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). / ([repo][vorillaz-devicons]) / ([website](http://vorillaz.github.io/devicons))
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-2.png)
### [Font Awesome][font-awesome]
> The iconic font and CSS toolkit. / ([repo][font-awesome]) / ([website](https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome))
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-font-awesome-1.png)
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-font-awesome-2.png)
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-font-awesome-3.png)
### [Octicons][octicons]
> GitHub's icons. / ([repo][octicons]) / ([website](https://octicons.github.com))
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-octicons.png)
### [Pomicons][gabrielelana-pomicons]
> 8 symbols for the ["Pomodoro Technique"®](http://pomodorotechnique.com). / ([repo][gabrielelana-pomicons])
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.7.x/fontforge-glyph-set-pomicons.png)
### [Powerline Extra Symbols][ryanoasis-powerline-extra-symbols]
> Provides additional Powerline separator glyphs and a column number glyph (CN). / ([repo][ryanoasis-powerline-extra-symbols])
![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanoasis/powerline-extra-symbols/master/fontforge.png)
## Usage
#### Option A
Install any of the already [provided patched fonts](#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](#font-patcher) for usage
* use this option if you do __not__ want to use one of the [fonts provided](#patched-fonts)
## Patched Fonts
| Font Name | Reserved Font Name | EM Size | Status |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|---------|--------|
| [3270 Nerd Font](patched-fonts/3270) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Anonymice Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/AnonymousPro) | Anonymous Pro | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Aurulent Sans Mono Nerd Font](patched-fonts/AurulentSansMono) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Nerd Font](patched-fonts/BitstreamVeraSansMono) | | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd Font](patched-fonts/DejaVuSansMono) | | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/DroidSansMono) | | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Fira Mono for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/FiraMono) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Heavy Data Mono for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/HeavyData) | | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Hermut Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Hermit) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Inconsolata for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Inconsolata) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Knack Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Hack) | Hack | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Lekton for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Lekton) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Literation Mono for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/LiberationMono) | Liberation | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Meslo for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Meslo) | | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Monofur for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Monofur) | | 2400 | [TEST] |
| [M+ (MPlus) for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/MPlus) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [ProFont (Windows tweaked) for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Profont) | | 1200 | [TEST] |
| [ProFont (x11) for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/ProFont) | | 1000 | [FAILING] |
| [ProggyCleanTT Nerd Font](patched-fonts/ProggyClean) | | 2048 | [FAILING] |
| [Sauce Code Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/SourceCodePro) | Source | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Terminess for Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/Terminus) | Terminus Font | 1000 | [FAILING](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/16) |
| [Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline Nerd Font](patched-fonts/UbuntuMono) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Ubuntu Mono Nerd Font](patched-fonts/UbuntuMono) | | 1000 | [TEST] |
* Variations include:
* extra glyphs that are *double* or *single* (monospaced) width
* [Font Awesome][font-awesome]
* [GitHub Octicons][octicons]
* [Pomicons][gabrielelana-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][font-awesome]
* [GitHub Octicons][octicons]
* [Pomicons][gabrielelana-pomicons]
## Font Installation
Put any font you would like to use into the `~/.local/share/fonts` (Linux) or `~/Library/Fonts/`(OS X) folder. For example:
Linux
```sh
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
```
deprecated alternate paths: `~/.fonts`
OS X
```sh
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
```
## Font Install Script
Installs all of the patched Fonts (_Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size_)
* Linux & Mac OS X
```sh
./install.sh
```
#### Examples
./install.sh
All fonts installed to /home/ryan/.fonts
<h2 align="center" id="font-patcher">
<img src="images/nerd-fonts-patcher-logo.png" alt="Nerd Fonts Patcher">
</h2>
Patching the font of your own choosing for use with the [vim-devicons](https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons) vim plugin:
* requires: python2, python-fontforge package (version 20141231 or later, see
the [install instructions](http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Installing_Fontforge.html))
* 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
<a name="gotta-patch-em-all"></a>
## 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/0.7.0/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](http://input.fontbureau.com/)
* Coming soon with external hosting :)
* [PragmataPro](http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm)
## Motivation (Original 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](LICENSE)
[vim-devicons]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons
[vorillaz-devicons]:http://vorillaz.github.io/devicons/
[font-awesome]:https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
[octicons]:https://github.com/github/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
[wiki]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki
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