Nerd Fonts is a project that patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons). Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular 'iconic fonts' such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.
The following Sankey flow diagram shows the current glyph sets included:
Important Notices
masterbranch file paths are not considered stable. Verify your repository URI references- cloning this repository is not recommended (due to Repo size) unless you are going to be contributing to development
Table of Contents
- 1 - Manual
- 2 - Release Archive Download
- 3 - Install Script
- 4 - Homebrew Fonts (macOS (OS X))
- 5 - Clone Repo
- 6 - Ad Hoc Curl Download
- 7 - Chocolatey or Scoop (Windows)
- 8 - Arch Linux Repository (Community, AUR)
- 9 - Patch Your Own Font
Additional Info
TL;DR
Nerd Fonts takes popular programming fonts and adds a bunch of Glyphs. There is also a font patcher available if your desired font isn't already patched. For more high level information see the wiki. If you are looking for the Vim plugin see VimDevIcons ➶.
Various Download Options for Fonts
If you...
Option 1.want to quickly grab an individual font download from thepatched-fonts/directoryOption 2.want to download a font family package of variations (bold, italic, etc.) see download an archiveOption 3.want to automate installing or use in scripts see the Install ScriptOption 4.are on macOS and want to use Homebrew see Homebrew FontsOption 5.want complete control then see cloning the repoOption 6.want to use thecurlcommand or use in scripts see Ad Hoc Curl DownloadOption 7.are on Windows and want to use Chocolatey or Scoop see Unofficial Chocolatey or Scoop RepositoriesOption 8.are on Arch Linux and want to use Community packages see Arch Community RepositoriesOption 9.want to patch your own font see the Font Patcher
Features
- A FontForge Python script to patch any font
- Includes an option to create Monospaced (fixed-pitch, fixed-width) or double-width (non-monospaced) glyphs
- For more details see the Font Patcher section
53already patched font families- Over
9,000glyphs/icons combined (more details)- Current glyph sets include: Powerline with Extra Symbols, Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Weather, Devicons, Octicons, Font Logos (Formerly Font Linux), Pomicons, Codeicons
- Monospaced (fixed-pitch, fixed-width) or double-width (non-monospaced) or proportional glyphs version of each font
- This refers to the Nerd Font glyphs themselves not necessarily the Font as a whole
- A Developer/Contributor provided bash script to re-patch all the fonts
Glyph Sets
See Wiki: Glyph Sets and Codepoints for more details
Icon names in shell
Patched Fonts
*RFN = Reserved Font Name
Variations
- no flags given (defaults to only Seti-UI + Custom and Devicons)
- double (variable/proportional) or single (fixed/monospaced) or proportional width glyphs
- Font Awesome
- Font Awesome Extension
- Material Design Icons
- Weather
- GitHub Octicons
- Font Logos (Formerly Font Linux)
- Powerline Extra Symbols
- IEC Power Symbols
- Pomicons
- Codicons
Font Installation
Option 1: Download and Install Manually
Best option for quickly getting a specific individual font.
Download the specific patched font of your choice
Option 2: Release Archive Download
Best option if you want an archive or complete font family of variations (Bold, Italic, etc.).
Fonts are available for download as packages in the latest release
If you want download the latest release of a given font inside a script you can use (replace "JetBrainsMono" with your font):
curl -OL https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/JetBrainsMono.tar.xzOption 3: Install Script
Best option if you want to automate installing or for use in scripts.
Note: Requires cloning the repo as of now
All fonts:
- Installs all the patched Fonts (Warning: This is a lot of Fonts adding up to a large size)
./install.shor, in Powershell (Windows only):
./install.ps1Single font:
- Installs a single Font of your choice
./install.sh <FontName>
./install.sh Hack
./install.sh HeavyDataor, in Powershell (Windows only):
./install.ps1 <FontName>
./install.ps1 Hack
./install.ps1 HeavyData
./install.ps1 FiraCode, Hack
./install.ps1 DejaVuSansMono -WhatIfOption 4: Homebrew Fonts
Best option if on macOS and want to use Homebrew.
All fonts are available via Homebrew Cask Fonts on macOS (OS X)
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install font-hack-nerd-fontOption 5: Clone the Repo
Best option for full control, all or some of the fonts, or contributing to development.
A full clone of this repository is not required nor efficient (mostly due to Repository size) if you are simply only interested in a limited set of fonts.
If you do want to clone the entire repo be sure to shallow clone:
git clone --depth 1If you want to clone a sub-directory, use git sparse-checkout. The following example requires Git v2.26:
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse [email protected]:ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
cd nerd-fonts
git sparse-checkout add patched-fonts/JetBrainsMonoOption 6: Ad Hoc Curl Download
Option if you want to use the
curlcommand or for use in scripts.
Linux
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cd ~/.local/share/fonts && curl -fLO https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/raw/HEAD/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/DroidSansMNerdFont-Regular.otfNote: deprecated alternative paths: ~/.fonts
macOS (OS X)
cd ~/Library/Fonts && curl -fLO https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/raw/HEAD/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/DroidSansMNerdFont-Regular.otfOption 7: Unofficial Chocolatey or Scoop Repositories
Option for Windows and wanting to use Chocolatey or Scoop.
Chocolatey users can download fonts published to the Chocolatey Community Repository (CCR):
choco install nerd-fonts-hackScoop users can download fonts using the Scoop bucket for Nerd Fonts:
scoop bucket add nerd-fonts
scoop install Hack-NFOption 8: Arch Community Repository
Option for Arch Linux and wanting to use Community packages.
Most fonts are available via Arch Community packages. Some special packages are in AUR.
Option 9: Patch Your Own Font
The option for patching your own font or fully customizing the patched font.
Use the provided Python command line script to generate a patched font from your own font to get the extra new glyphs
See: Font Patcher for usage
- use this option if you do not want to use one of the fonts provided
- you will still need to copy the generated font to the correct font directory on your system
Patching the font of your own choosing:
-
Use the script
- Download script and its helper files as archive and extract
- Just downloading the
font-patcherscript is not enough. - Requires: Fontforge, Python 3,
python-fontforgeandargparsepackages- Fontforge can be installed as package
- or on OSX via
brew install fontforge - or as AppImage
- Usage, recommended:
fontforge -script font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT- Usage, direct (more convenient call, if it works for you):
./font-patcher PATH_TO_FONT-
Usage, with Fontforge AppImage
Note:
chmod u+xthe AppImage after download. All supplied paths need to be absolute and an explicit output path is required! If everything is located in the same directory, you can use the$PWDshorthand.
./FontForge.AppImage -script $PWD/font-patcher $PWD/BaseFont.ttf -out /tmp -
Use docker
docker run --rm -v /path/to/fonts:/in -v /path/for/output:/out nerdfonts/patcher [OPTIONS]
Full options:
Nerd Fonts Patcher v3.0.2 (4.4.0) (ff 20230101)
usage: font-patcher [-h] [-v] [-s] [-l] [-q] [-c] [--careful] [--removeligs] [--postprocess [POSTPROCESS]] [--configfile [CONFIGFILE]] [--custom [CUSTOM]]
[-ext [EXTENSION]] [-out [OUTPUTDIR]] [--glyphdir [GLYPHDIR]] [--makegroups [{-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6}]] [--variable-width-glyphs]
[--has-no-italic] [--progressbars | --no-progressbars] [--debug [{0,1,2,3}]] [--dry] [--xavgcharwidth [XAVGWIDTH]] [--fontawesome]
[--fontawesomeextension] [--fontlogos] [--octicons] [--codicons] [--powersymbols] [--pomicons] [--powerline] [--powerlineextra]
[--material] [--weather]
font
Nerd Fonts Font Patcher: patches a given font with programming and development related glyphs
* Website: https://www.nerdfonts.com
* Version: 3.0.2
* Development Website: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
* Changelog: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/-/changelog.md
positional arguments:
font The path to the font to patch (e.g., Inconsolata.otf)
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-s, --mono, --use-single-width-glyphs
Whether to generate the glyphs as single-width not double-width (default is double-width)
-l, --adjust-line-height
Whether to adjust line heights (attempt to center powerline separators more evenly)
-q, --quiet, --shutup
Do not generate verbose output
-c, --complete Add all available Glyphs
--careful Do not overwrite existing glyphs if detected
--removeligs, --removeligatures
Removes ligatures specificed in JSON configuration file
--postprocess [POSTPROCESS]
Specify a Script for Post Processing
--configfile [CONFIGFILE]
Specify a file path for JSON configuration file (see sample: src/config.sample.json)
--custom [CUSTOM] Specify a custom symbol font, all glyphs will be copied; absolute path suggested
-ext [EXTENSION], --extension [EXTENSION]
Change font file type to create (e.g., ttf, otf)
-out [OUTPUTDIR], --outputdir [OUTPUTDIR]
The directory to output the patched font file to
--glyphdir [GLYPHDIR]
Path to glyphs to be used for patching
--makegroups [{-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6}]
Use alternative method to name patched fonts (recommended)
--variable-width-glyphs
Do not adjust advance width (no "overhang")
--has-no-italic Font family does not have Italic (but Oblique)
--progressbars Show percentage completion progress bars per Glyph Set (default)
--no-progressbars Don't show percentage completion progress bars per Glyph Set
--debug [{0,1,2,3}] Verbose mode (optional: 1=just to file; 2*=just to terminal; 3=display and file)
--dry Do neither patch nor store the font, to check naming
--xavgcharwidth [XAVGWIDTH]
Adjust xAvgCharWidth (optional: concrete value)
Symbol Fonts:
--fontawesome Add Font Awesome Glyphs (http://fontawesome.io/)
--fontawesomeextension
Add Font Awesome Extension Glyphs (https://andrelzgava.github.io/font-awesome-extension/)
--fontlogos, --fontlinux
Add Font Logos Glyphs (https://github.com/Lukas-W/font-logos)
--octicons Add Octicons Glyphs (https://octicons.github.com)
--codicons Add Codicons Glyphs (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-codicons)
--powersymbols Add IEC Power Symbols (https://unicodepowersymbol.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)
--material, --materialdesignicons, --mdi
Add Material Design Icons (https://github.com/templarian/MaterialDesign)
--weather, --weathericons
Add Weather Icons (https://github.com/erikflowers/weather-icons)
Examples
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf -s -q
./font-patcher Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf --use-single-width-glyphs --quiet
./font-patcher Inconsolata.otf --fontawesome
./font-patcher Inconsolata.otf --fontawesome --octicons --pomicons
./font-patcher Inconsolata.otf
./FontForge.AppImage -script /tmp/nerdfonts/font-patcher /tmp/nerdfonts/CascadiaMonoPL-Semibold.ttf --fontawesome -out /tmp
./FontForge.AppImage -script $PWD/font-patcher $PWD/CascadiaMonoPL-Semibold.ttf --octicons -out $HOME
docker run --rm -v ~/myfont/patchme:/in -v ~/myfont/patched:/out nerdfonts/patcher
docker run --rm -v ~/Desktop/myfont/patchme:/in -v ~/Desktop/myfont/patched:/out nerdfonts/patcher --fontawesome
Usually you want the --complete option.
Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!
-
for Contributor or Developer use
-
re-patches all fonts in the unpatched directory:
./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh -
can optionally limit to specific font name pattern:
./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh Hermit -
or to specific directory name start:
./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh /Heavy
Full options:
Usage: ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher!.sh [OPTION] [FILTER]
OPTION:
-c, --checkfont Create the font(s) in check-fonts/ instead
-t, --keeptime Try to preserve timestamp of previously patched
font in patched-fonts/ directory
-v, --verbose Show more information when running
-i, --info Rebuild JUST the readmes
-j, --jobs Run up to 8 patch processes in parallel
-h, --help Show this help
FILTER:
The filter argument to this script is a filter for the fonts to patch.
The filter is a regex (glob * is expressed as [^/]*, see `man 7 glob`)
All font files that start with that filter (and are ttf, otf, or sfd files) will
be processed only.
Example ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh "iosevka"
Process all font files that start with "iosevka"
If the argument starts with a '/' all font files in a directory that matches
the filter are processed only.
Example ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh "/iosevka"
Process all font files that are in directory "iosevka"
Contributing
See contributing.md
Unstable File Paths
Reference the release branch and not the master branch because paths are subject to change for each release
- For example:
- ✅ Use:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/0.9.0/patched-fonts/Hermit/Medium/complete/Hurmit%20Medium%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf ❌ Instead of:https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/Hermit/Medium/complete/Hurmit%20Medium%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf
- ✅ Use:
Other Good Fonts to Patch
Non exhaustive list of fonts that would benefit from being patched but are not included in Nerd Fonts due to their license (proprietary, commercial, etc.):
Project Motivation
Changelog
See changelog.md
License
See LICENSE