Python
Collection of over 20 patched fonts (over 2,000 variations) & FontForge font patcher python script for Powerline, Font Awesome, Octicons, Devicons, and Vim Devicons. Includes: Droid Sans, Meslo, Source Code, AnonymousPro, Hack, ProFont, Inconsolata, and many more

Fonts	Patcher

• A FontForge python script to patch any font
• Over 20 already patched font families
• Over 2,000 unique combinations/variations of patched fonts (more details)
• Over 1,000 glyphs/icons combined (more details)
• Originally created for use with vim-devicons ➶ vim plugin

Table of Contents

• font nerd icons
  • Glyph sets
  • Usage
  • Patched Fonts List
  • Combinations
  • Font Installation
  • Font Install Script (Linux & Mac OS X)
  • Font Patcher
  • Gotta Patch 'em All Font Patcher!
  • Unstable file paths on master
  • Other Good Fonts to Patch
  • Rationale
  • Other
  • License

Glyph Sets

Seti-UI + Custom

Based off of Seti-UI Icomoon with additional custom glyphs added from various sources.

Devicons

An iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). / (repo) / (website)

Font Awesome

The iconic font and CSS toolkit. / (repo) / (website)

Octicons

GitHub's icons. / (repo) / (website)

Pomicons

8 symbols for the "Pomodoro Technique"®. / (repo)

Powerline Extra Symbols

Provides additional Powerline separator glyphs and a column number glyph (CN). / (repo)

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

• Variations include:
  • extra glyphs that are double or single (monospaced) width
  • Font Awesome
  • GitHub Octicons
  • 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
    • GitHub Octicons
    • Pomicons

Glyphs Combined

Diagram created using @SankeyMATIC

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

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

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

./install.sh

Examples

./install.sh
All fonts installed to /home/ryan/.fonts

Patching the font of your own choosing for use with the vim-devicons vim plugin:

• requires: python2, python-fontforge package (version 20141231 or later, see the install instructions)
• 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

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

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
    • Coming soon with external hosting :)
  • PragmataPro

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