font nerd icons

• A fontforge python script to patch any font
• Over 20 already patched font families
• Over 350 unique permutations/variations of patched fonts how?

Glyph set 1: Seti-UI + Custom

• Seti-UI / icomoon plus misc custom glyphs

Glyph set 2: devicons

• devicons from vorillaz-devicons

Glyph set 3: Pomicons

• Pomicons from gabrielelana-pomicons

Glyph set 4: powerline-extra-symbols

• Work In Progress... :)

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	em size	status
3270 Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Anonymice Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Aurulent Sans Mono Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
DejaVu Sans Mono Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Droid Sans Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Fira Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Heavy Data Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Inconsolata for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Lekton for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Literation Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Meslo for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Monofur for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2400	[OKAY]
M+ (MPlus) for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
ProFont (Windows tweaked) for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1200	[OKAY]
ProFont (x11) for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[FAIL]
ProggyCleanTT Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[OKAY]
Sauce Code Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Terminess for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[FAIL]
Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Ubuntu Mono Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]

• Variations include:
• extra glyphs that are double or single (monospaced) width
• Pomiconsgabrielelana-pomicons
• Windows Compatible (WIP)

Permutations

• Over 350 unique permutations/variations of patched fonts:
• 44 font variations (just counting otf and ttf)
• 8 permutations (1 no flags, 3 flagged options)
• Calculated Permutations (8 * 44) = 352
• Permutations for each font are any combination of (plus no flags option):
  • Monospaced extra glyphs
  • Windows Compatible
  • Pomicons

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
• PragmataPro

Font Install Script (Linux & 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] [-w] 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
  -w, --windows, --limit-font-name-length
                        Limit the internal font name to a maximum of 31
                        characters (for safe Windows compatiblity)
  --pomicons            Add Pomicon Glyphs
                        (https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons)

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

Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!

• re-patches all fonts in the unpatched directory
• mostly for Contributor/Dev use only

./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh

Rationale

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

Other

• previously known as 'nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher'

License

see LICENSE