Nerd Fonts

Nerd Fonts is an open-source project that patches popular programming fonts with thousands of additional glyphs from iconic fonts such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and Material Design Icons. The result is a collection of over 50 patched monospace fonts optimized for terminal emulators, code editors, and command-line tools. The patching process uses Python scripts to retake ASCII and Unicode code points, adding icons that represent file types, Git branch symbols, programming languages, and development tool logos. Programmers use these fonts in terminals like iTerm2, Windows Terminal, and Alacritty to display rich icons in shell prompts like Oh My Zsh, Starship, and Powerlevel10k. The project maintains a web directory where users can browse all available patched fonts, view character maps, and download font files directly from GitHub releases. Each font listing shows the original font name, version number, and a brief description of its design characteristics. Popular patched fonts include Fira Code Nerd Font, JetBrains Mono Nerd Font, and Hack Nerd Font. The patching scripts are written in Python and support custom icon configurations, allowing users to build personalized patched fonts. The project has over 50,000 GitHub stars and is actively maintained by Ryan L. McIntyre (ryanoasis) with contributions from over 100 developers. The font files are released under their original licenses, with the patching process adding no additional restrictions. Nerd Fonts releases follow semantic versioning, with version 3.0 launched in 2022 adding over 1000 new icons and improving CJK character coverage.