nerd-fonts/readme.md
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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/v0.8.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]** |
|-----------------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| [![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
* **26** already [patched font families](#patched-fonts)
* Over **5,700** 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/v0.8.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/v0.8.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/v0.8.x/fontforge-glyph-set-font-awesome-1.png)
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.8.x/fontforge-glyph-set-font-awesome-2.png)
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.8.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/v0.8.x/fontforge-glyph-set-octicons.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)
### [Font Linux][font-linux]
> Font-linux is an icon font containing logos of popular linux distributions for inclusion in websites. / ([repo][font-linux])
![image](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher/wiki/screenshots/v0.8.x/fontforge-glyph-set-font-linux.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/v0.8.x/fontforge-glyph-set-pomicons.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 | Font Name and Repository | *RFN | EM Size | Status |
|---------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|------|---------|-------------------|
| [3270 Nerd Font][p-3270] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Anonymice Nerd Font][p-anonymous-pro] | [Anonymous Pro][f-a-pro] | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Aurulent Sans Mono Nerd Font][p-aurulent] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Nerd Font][p-bitstream] | | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd Font][p-dejavu] | | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Droid Sans Mono Nerd Font][p-droid] | | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Fantasque Sans Nerd Font][p-fantasque] | [Fantasque Sans][f-fant] | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Fura Code Nerd Font][p-fira-code] | [Fira][f-fira-code] | YES | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Fura Mono Nerd Font][p-fira-mono] | [Fira][f-fira-mono] | YES | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Heavy Data Mono Nerd Font][p-heavy-data] | | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Hermut Nerd Font][p-hermit] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Inconsolata Nerd Font][p-inconsolata] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Iosevka][p-iosevka] | [Iosevka][f-iosevka] | YES | 1000 | [#83][s-iosevka] |
| [Knack Nerd Font][p-hack] | [Hack][f-hack] | YES | 2048 | [#70][s-hack] |
| [Lekton Nerd Font][p-lekton] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Literation Mono Nerd Font][p-liberation] | [Liberation][f-liberation] | YES | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Meslo Nerd Font][p-meslo] | | NO | 2048 | [TEST] |
| [Monofur Nerd Font][p-monofur] | | NO | 2400 | [TEST] |
| [Monoid Nerd Font][p-monoid] | | NO | 1536 | [TEST] |
| [M+ (MPlus) Nerd Font][p-mplus] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [ProFont (Windows tweaked) Nerd Font][p-profont] | | NO | 1200 | [TEST] |
| [ProFont (x11) Nerd Font][p-profont] | | NO | 1000 | [FAILING] |
| [ProggyClean Nerd Font][p-proggy-clean] | | NO | 2048 | [FAILING] |
| [Roboto Mono][p-roboto] | | NO | 2048 | [FAILING] |
| [Sauce Code Nerd Font][p-source-code-pro] | [Source][f-source] | YES | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Terminess Nerd Font][p-terminus] | [Terminus Font][f-terminus] | YES | 1000 | [#16][s-terminus] |
| [Ubuntu Mono derivative Nerd Font][p-ubuntu] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
| [Ubuntu Mono Nerd Font][p-ubuntu] | | NO | 1000 | [TEST] |
<sub>_*RFN = Reserved Font Name_</sub>
* Variations include:
* extra glyphs that are *double* or *single* (monospaced) width
* [Font Awesome][font-awesome]
* [GitHub Octicons][octicons]
* [Font Linux][font-linux]
* [Pomicons][gabrielelana-pomicons]
* Full Windows Compatibility (WIP)
## Combinations
* Over 5,700 unique variations/combinations (Power Set) of patched fonts:
* 102 unpatched font variations (just counting otf and ttf)
* 56 combinations (Powerline Extra included by default currently)
* Calculated combinations (56 * 102) = 5,712
* Combinations for each font are any combination of (plus no flags option):
* Monospaced extra glyphs
* Windows Compatible
* [Font Awesome][font-awesome]
* [GitHub Octicons][octicons]
* [Font Linux][font-linux]
* [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
* Linux & Mac OS X
### To install all fonts:
* Installs all of the patched Fonts (_Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size_)
```sh
./install.sh
```
### To install a single font:
```sh
./install.sh <FontName>
./install.sh Hack
./install.sh HeavyData
```
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<img src="images/nerd-fonts-patcher-logo.png" alt="Nerd Fonts Patcher">
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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] [-v] [-s] [-q] [-w] [--fontawesome] [--fontlinux]
[--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
-v, --version show program's version number 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)
--fontlinux Add Font Linux Glyphs (https://github.com/Lukas-W
/font-linux)
--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/0.8.0/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)
## Project History
### 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. This project began as a part of the [vim-devicons] repo but soon it became apparent it did not belong tied to the vim plugin. I thought it might benefit others better as a separate project and allow a wider range of uses. This project started before I knew about Fontconfig provided solution, although a patched font still has some benefits over the Fontconfig.
* project and repository previously known as 'nerd-filetype-glyphs-fonts-patcher' and 'font-nerd-icons'
## License
see [LICENSE](LICENSE)
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[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
[font-linux]:https://github.com/Lukas-W/font-linux
[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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Font repos
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[f-hack]:https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack
[f-a-pro]:http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
[f-source]:https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
[f-liberation]:https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts
[f-terminus]:http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net
[f-fira-mono]:https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
[f-fira-code]:https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
[f-monoid]:https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid
[f-iosevka]:https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
[f-fant]:https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
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Patched Font internal links
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[p-3270]:patched-fonts/3270
[p-anonymous-pro]:patched-fonts/AnonymousPro
[p-aurulent]:patched-fonts/AurulentSansMono
[p-bitstream]:patched-fonts/BitstreamVeraSansMono
[p-dejavu]:patched-fonts/DejaVuSansMono
[p-droid]:patched-fonts/DroidSansMono
[p-fantasque]:patched-fonts/FantasqueSansMono
[p-fira-code]:patched-fonts/FiraCode
[p-fira-mono]:patched-fonts/FiraMono
[p-heavy-data]:patched-fonts/HeavyData
[p-hermit]:patched-fonts/Hermit
[p-inconsolata]:patched-fonts/Inconsolata
[p-iosevka]:patched-fonts/Iosevka
[p-hack]:patched-fonts/Hack
[p-lekton]:patched-fonts/Lekton
[p-liberation]:patched-fonts/LiberationMono
[p-meslo]:patched-fonts/Meslo
[p-monofur]:patched-fonts/Monofur
[p-monoid]:patched-fonts/Monoid
[p-mplus]:patched-fonts/MPlus
[p-profont]:patched-fonts/Profont
[p-proggy-clean]:patched-fonts/ProggyClean
[p-roboto]:patched-fonts/RobotoMono
[p-source-code-pro]:patched-fonts/SourceCodePro
[p-terminus]:patched-fonts/Terminus
[p-ubuntu]:patched-fonts/UbuntuMono
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[s-hack]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/70
[s-terminus]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/16
[s-iosevka]:https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/83