nerd-fonts/readme.md

nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher v0.3.0

• 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)

Glyph set 1

Glyph set 2 (devicons from vorillaz-devicons)

Glyph set 3 (pomicons from gabrielelana-pomicons)

• 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	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]
Input Mono for Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	2048	[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	[OKAY]
Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]
Ubuntu Mono Plus Nerd File Types	1000	[OKAY]

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

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] [-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)

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 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

License

see LICENSE